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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence read more
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love read more
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take read more
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
