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In my clinical experience  the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.
— Rollo May
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed  for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
— Marcus Aurelius
Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work  not yours.
— Cynthia Ozick
What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
— Bertolt Brecht
Nothing is good for everyone  but only relatively to some people.
— Andre Gide
What's important is finding out what works for you.
— Henry Moore
Everyone has a right to his own course of action.
— Moliere
Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity  the necessity of being the man you are  and not another. You are free to be that man  but not free to be another.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
What one man does  another fails to do  what's fit for me may not be fit for you.
— Anonymous
Let them know a real man  who lives as he was meant to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
— Harper Lee
There's no right way of writing. There's only your way.
— Milton Lomask
Every man must get to heaven his own way.
— Frederick the Great
There are as many ways to live and grow as there are people. Our own ways are the only ways that should matter to us.
— Evelyn Mandel
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound  why try to look like a Pekingese?
— Edith Sitwell
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us  no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken  get to work on that.
— Epictetus
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading  it vexes me to choose another guide.
— Emily Bronte
If you go to heaven without being naturally qualified for it  you will not enjoy it there.
— George Bernard Shaw
He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.
— Joan L. Brannon
To be what we are  and to become what we are capable of becoming  is the only end of life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To have no set purpose in one's life is harlotry of the will.
— Stephen McKenna
A rose is a rose is a rose.
— Gertrude Stein
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy  but stability-the steadfastness of a single purpose.
— Caroline Stephen
Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive  along with which comes the inner voice which says  "This is the real me " and when you have found that attitude  follow it.
— William James
Most of our platitudes notwithstanding  self-deception remains the most difficult deception. The tricks that worked on others count for nothing in that very well-lit back alley where one keeps assignations with oneself: no winning smiles will do here  no prettily drawn list of good intentions.
— Joan Didion
No matter where I run  I meet myself there.
— Dorothy Fields
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men-and people in general.
— Lorraine Hansbury
There is always a certain peace in being what one is  in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.
— Ugo Betti
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
— Julius Charles Hare
As you go along your road in life  you will  if you aim high enough  also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem  have courage still-and persevere.
— Madeleine Albright
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide  as ours has done ...  whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.
— Carrie Chapman Catt
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
— Pearl Bailey
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
— Katharine Hepburn
Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder  an honorable character is your best calling card  and that's something anyone can have!
— Kathy Ireland
The world may take your reputation from you  but it cannot take your character.
— Emma Dunham Kelley
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference  and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
— Sonia Johnson
I am only one  but still I am one. I cannot do everything  but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
— Helen Keller
Keep your promises to yourself.
— David Harold Fink
The possibilities are unlimited as long as you are true to your life's purpose.
— Marcia Wieder
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate  As the voyage along thru life  'Tis the will of the soul That decides its goal  And not the calm or the strife.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
— Sylvester Stallone
I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.
— Violette Leduc
No matter how ill we may be  nor how low we may have fallen  we should not change identity with any other person.
— Samuel Butler
Whatever you want in life  other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
— Diane Sawyer
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes  economic pressure  and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
— Naomi Wolf
Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.
— Angelo Patri
To be nobody-but-yourself-in a world which is doing its best  night and day  to make you everybody else-means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight  and never stop fighting.
— e. e. cummings
To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
— Janet Erskine Stuart
We had as lief not be  as not be ourselves.
— William Hazlitt
No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself
— James Russell Lowell
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events  circumstances  etc.  have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
— Henry David Thoreau
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
— Mahalia Jackson
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own  to be what no others are  and to do what no other can do.
— William Ellery Channing
Do not wish to be anything but what you are.
— Saint Francis de Sales
I think God rarely gives to one man  or one set of men  more than one great moral victory to win.
— Lucy Stone
Truth has beauty  power  and necessity.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
— Erich Fromm
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
— Michel de Montaigne
Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house  but you cannot build the house without them.
— Constance Fenimore Woolson
To know what you prefer  instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer  is to keep your soul alive.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
— Sir Richard Burton
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
— Andre Gide
The moment that any life  however good  stifles you  you may be sure it isn't your real life.
— Arthur Christopher Benson
All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.
— Sophocles
What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves  it is civil war.
— Charles Caleb Colton
With begging and scrambling we find very little  but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
— Rabindranath Tagore
While you cannot resolve what you are  at last you will be nothing.
— Martial
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical  sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
— Helen Merrell Lynd
Until you know that life is interesting  and find it so  you haven't found your soul.
— Geoffrey Fisher
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
— Andre Gide
Learn what you are  and be such.
— Pindar
We are betrayed by what is false within.
— George Meredith
If I trim myself to suit others I will soon whittle myself away.
— Anonymous
This above all: to thine own self be true.
— William Shakespeare
In the world to come they will not ask me  "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me  "Why were you not Zusya?"
— Zusya of Hanipoli
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
— Robertson Davies
All life is the struggle  the effort to be itself.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
— Henrik Ibsen
It is possible to be different and still be all right.
— Anne Wilson Schaef
Let me listen to me and not to them.
— Gertrude Stein
She lacks confidence  she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
— Anais Nin
I will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
— Lillian Hellman
Let the world know you as you are  not as you think you should be  because sooner or later  if you are posing  you will forget the pose  and then where are you?
— Fanny Brice
I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
— Sally Field
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.
— Leo Buscaglia
Philosophy is a purely personal matter. A genuine philosopher's credo is the outcome of a single complex personality  it cannot be transferred. No two persons  if sincere  can have the same philosophy.
— Havelock Ellis
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual  you have an obligation to be one.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Follow what you love! Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there. Ask what you have inside. Follow not your interests  which change  but what you are and what you love  which will and should not change.
— Georgie Anne Geyer
All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not  to do something they cannot do.
— David Graydon
Dress to please yourself.... Forget you are what you wear.... Wear what you are.
— Elizabeth Hawkes
Resolve to be thyself ... he who finds himself loses his misery!
— Matthew Arnold
If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives  to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling  then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham  in which our selves are determined by the will of others  in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.
— Nena O'Neil
Happiness  that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life  impels us through all its mazes and meanderings  but leads none of us by the same route.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means  and so make for themselves different modes of life.
— Aristotle
All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ  they aim at the same end.
— Blaise Pascal
Be not imitator  freshly act thy part  Through this world be thou an independent ranger  Better is the faith that springeth from thy heart Than a better faith belonging to a stranger.
— Persian proverb
There is always a certain peace in being what one is  in being that completely.
— Ugo Betti
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
'Tis a gift to be simple  'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right  We will be in the valley of love and delight.
— Anonymous
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
— Alex Haley
I is who I is.
— Tom Peterson
The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.
— Charles R. Brown
The search for a new personality is futile  what is fruitful is the human interest the old personality can take in new activities.
— Cesare Pavese
Our concern must be to live while we're alive ... to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I searched through rebellion  drugs  diets  mysticism  religions  intellectu-alism and much more  only to begin to find ... that truth is basically simple-and feels good  clean and right.
— Chick Corea
That suit is best that best suits me.
— John Clark
The self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
— Thomas Szasz
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.
— Hazel Henderson
Go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize after something's been done than to get permission ahead of time.
— Grace Murray Hopper
I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
— Dolly Parton
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me  unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is healthier  in any case  to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
— Alice Walker
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
— Barbara Walters
Power is strength and the ability to see yourself through your own eyes and not through the eyes of another.
— Agnes Whistling Elk
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
— Jane Fonda
I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it  it's my personality.
— Jay Chiat
For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman  as a human being  and even female-was when I was singing.
— Leontyne Price
The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it  with whole heart and single mind.
— Gail Sheehy
I look at ordinary people in their suits  them with no scars  and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me  like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!
— Willie Pastrano
I have the feeling when I write poetry that I'm doing what I'm supposed to do. You don't think about whether you're going to get money or fame  you just do it.
— Doris Lund
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size  or it is not the door that providence means for him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
— Franz Kafka
Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless  speed up. If you become winded  slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then  when you're no longer thinking ahead  each footstep isn't just a means to an end  but a unique event in itself.
— Robert M. Pirsig
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires.
— Rebecca West
In the first grade  I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it  but I knew the line. ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated  everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well  where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.
— Louise Nevelson
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
— Flannery O'Connor
Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence  for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate  God-given abilities.
— George H. Bender
All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.
— Smiley Blanton
The same man cannot be skilled in everything  each has his special excellence.
— Euripides
Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.
— Marsha Sinetar
The best career advice given to the young ... is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it."
— Katharine Whitehorn
Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.
— Pindar
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
— Edgar Watson Howe
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.
— Giuseppe Verdi
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated  it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
— Erica Jong
Each citizen should play his part in the community according to his individual gifts.
— Plato
Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.
— Phillips Brooks
We don't see many fat men walking on stilts.
— Bud Miller
I was playing it like Willie Wilson  but I forgot that I'm in Clint Hurdle's body.
— Clint Hurdle
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess  but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything  anything I ever did  I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
— Tennessee Williams
To every man according to his ability.
— Bible
If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er  he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted  or Beethoven composed music  or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say  here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Men whose trade is rat-catching  love to catch rats  the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight  and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
— Sydney Smith
Brutes find out where their talents lie  a bear will not attempt to fly.
— Jonathan Swift
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
— Vauvenargues
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Are you doing the kind of work you were built for  so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little?
— B. C. Forbes
Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing  and if you are good enough at it  the money will come.
— Greer Garson
Whenever it is possible  a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
— William Lyon Phelps
The fun of being alive is realizing you have a talent and you can use it every day so it grows stronger.... And if you're in an atmosphere where this talent is appreciated instead of just tolerated  why  it's just as good as sex.
— Lou Centlivre
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.
— Federico Fellini
The high prize of life  the crowning fortune of a man  is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in  whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
— Johann von Goethe
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well  and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
— John D. Rockefeller III
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made  I tried to be an herbalist  whereas I should keep to the butcher's trade.
— Jean de la Fontaine
If you have to support yourself  you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
— Katharine Hepburn
When men are rightfully occupied  then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.
— John Ruskin
A musician must make music  an artist must paint  a poet must write  if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be  he must be.
— Abraham Maslow
We do not write as we want but as we can.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for  and you will succeed.
— Sydney Smith
It is not a dreamlike state  but the somehow insulated state  that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing  but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical  it is not only spiritual  it is something of both  on a different plane and a more remote one.
— Arnold Palmer
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models  learn to be ourselves  and allow our natural channel to open.
— Shakti Gawain
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet  is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly curved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on ... the arrangement of textures and colors in a butterfly's wing?
— Ray Kroc
The question "Who ought to be boss" is like asking "Who ought to be tenor in the quartet?" Obviously  the man who can sing tenor.
— Henry Ford
I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami  but salami is salami.
— Stephen King
I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.
— George Burns
I cannot do everything  but still I can do something  and because I cannot do everything  I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
— Edward Everett Hale
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
— Shirley Lord
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
— Tillie Olsen
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe  but to find out what he has to do ... within the limits of his comprehension.
— Johann von Goethe
The weakest among us has a gift  however seemingly trivial  which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.
— John Ruskin
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities  and for no more.
— Gail Hamilton
Me  I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
— Bette Midler
The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
— Thomas Carlyle
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do  rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.
— Saint Francis de Sales
When I was young  I said to God  "God  tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered  "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said  "God  tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said  "Well George  that's more nearly your size." And he told me.
— George Washington Carver
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
— Sir Archibald Wavell
Choose a subject equal to your abilities  think carefully what your shoulders may refuse  and what they are capable of bearing.
— Horace
In efforts to soar above our nature  we invariably fall below it.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The driver knows how much the ox can carry  and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.
— Zen saying
If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly  quietly  without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath  you would stop and take breath  you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
— Elizabeth Prentiss
The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming  and what one has in fact become.
— Ashley Montagu
What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best-which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that  success found me.
— Debbi Fields
I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did  so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.
— Rosalynn Carter
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
— Christopher Morley
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
— Henry James
We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.
— Toni Morrison
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty.
— Dr. Martha Friedman
All I would tell people is to hold on to what was individual about themselves  not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find in on your own terms.
— Harrison Ford
For me  writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it  I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead  (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and  once in a while  pride  and (3) it's frightening.
— Gloria Steinem
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
— Helen Keller
My mother said to me  "If you become a soldier  you'll be a general  if you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead  I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
— Pablo Picasso
We only do well the things we like doing.
— Colette
Abasement  degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature  Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this  the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
— Anonymous
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
— Abraham Maslow
We can't all be heroes  because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
— Will Rogers
I'd rather be a lamppost in Chicago than a millionaire in any other city.
— William A. Hulbert
Whatever you are by nature  keep to it  never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for  and you will succeed  be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
— Sydney Smith
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer  and practice it.
— Richard Bach
Do what you love  the money will follow.
— Marsha Sinetar
I am only one  but still I am one. I cannot do everything  but still I can do something  and because I cannot do everything  I will not refuse to do something I can do.
— Edward Everett Hale
Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)
— Jacqueline Briskin
You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life.
— Saint Vincent Pallotti
Bloom where you are planted.
— Anonymous
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society-more briefly  to find your real job  and do it.
— Charlotte P. Gilman
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims  one turns  as it were  instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms  like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
— George Orwell
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
— Martha Grimes
If Heaven made him  earth can find some use for him.
— Chinese proverb
Don't do anything that someone else can do for you because there are only so many things that only you can do.
— Jinger Heath
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
— Winifred Holtby
Sir  I would rather be right than be President.
— Henry Clay
He will hew to the line of right  let the chips fly where they may.
— Roscoe Conkling
Be sure you are right  then go ahead.
— David Crockett
Two wrongs can never make a right.
— English proverb
Let us have faith that Right makes Might  and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Right is the eternal sun  the world cannot delay its coming.
— Wendell Phillips
One truth is clear  Whatever is is right.
— Alexander Pope
Heaven itself has ordained the right.
— George Washington
Wherever there is a human being  I see God-given rights inherent in that being  whatever may be the sex or complexion.
— William Lloyd Garrison
The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world  and others no right.
— Henry George
Equal rights for all  special privileges for none.
— Thomas Jefferson
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.
— Denis Diderot
Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported  insulated  and isolated from the risks of life- and if we fall  our government stands ready with Band-Aids of every size.
— Shirley Temple Black
Any life truly lived is a risky business  and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.
— Kenneth S. Davis
However well organized the foundations of life may be  life must always be full of risks.
— Havelock Ellis
Dancing on the edge is the only place to be.
— Trisha Brown
It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
— Jennie Jerome Churchill
All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.
— Dale Carnegie
I postpone death by living  by suffering  by error  by risking  by giving  by losing.
— Anais Nin
If you don't take chances  you can't do anything in life.
— Michael Spinks
Only those who dare  truly live.
— Ruth P. Freedman
Life has no romance without risk.
— Sarah Doherty
We love because it is the only true adventure.
— Nikki Giovanni
If your life is ever going to get better  you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
— David Viscott
You've got to keep fighting-you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
— Elia Kazan
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
— Neil Simon
It is only by risking ... that we live at all.
— William James
Life is a risk.
— Diane von Furstenberg
To be alive at all involves some risk.
— Harold Macmillan
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness  business men who were not afraid of failure  scientists who were not afraid of the truth  thinkers who were not afraid of progress  dreamers who were not afraid of action.
— Brooks Atkinson
To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.
— Jacqueline Cochran
It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
— Alfred North Whitehead
To achieve anything  you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.
— Stirling Moss
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
— Thomas Fuller
If we are intended for great ends  we are called to great hazards.
— John Henry Cardinal Newman
Liberty is always dangerous  but it is the safest thing we have.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
As soon as there is life  there is danger.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
He that is not in the war is not out of danger.
— Anonymous
Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.
— Anonymous
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
— Katharine Hepburn
It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.
— Sonia Johnson
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
— Anonymous
Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
— Helen Keller
All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.
— Hannah Moore
What one has not experienced  one will never understand in print.
— Isadora Duncan
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
— Barbara Sher
It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Be bold  and mighty forces will come to your aid.
— Basil King
A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame  and the brunt of the storm.
— Herbert N. Casson
Fortune and love befriend the bold.
— Ovid
Our safety is not in blindness  but in facing our danger.
— J. C. F. von Schiller
Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear  seeing it for what it is  is the only way of putting it to rest.
— Harvey Fierstein
Unless you enter the tiger's den  you cannot take the cubs.
— Japanese proverb
They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who  having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life  do not on that account shrink from danger.
— Thucydides
An individual dies ... when  instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being  he cowers within  and takes refuge there.
— E. M. Cioran
Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.
— Andre Maurois
You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.
— Lois Platford
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare  it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
— Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
— T. S. Eliot
In order to find the edge  you must risk going over the edge.
— Dennis Dugan
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
— Tennessee Williams
The faster you go  the more chance there is of stubbing your toe  but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
— Charles F. Kettering
Taking risks gives me energy.
— Jay Chiat
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
What is necessary is never a risk.
— Cardinal de Retz
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
— John Lubbock
Take risks: if you win  you will be happy  if you lose  you will be wise.
— Anonymous
Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile ... initially scared me to death.
— Betty Bender
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
— Bette Davis
When you make a commitment to a relationship  you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
— Barbara De Angelis
The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things  who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
— B. C. Forbes
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.
— Shirley Hufstedler
I'll always push the envelope. To me  the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.
— Cybil Shepherd
If the risk-reward ratio is right  you can make big money buying trouble.
— Anonymous
What isn't tried won't work.
— Claude McDonald
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
— Delores Ibarruri
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.
— Helen Keller
All great reforms require one to dare a lot to win a little.
— William L. O'Neill
Competition can damage self-esteem  create anxiety  and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.
— Mariah Burton Nelson
I am willing to put myself through anything  temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown  and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers  an often painful process.
— Diana Nyad
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with  you will not do much.
— Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Those lose least who have least to lose.
— Rose O'Neil
He that would have fruit must climb the tree.
— Thomas Fuller
Love  like a chicken salad or restaurant hash  must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
— Helen Rowland
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks  he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other
— Pietro Metastasio
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings  which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
— Anne-Sophie Swetchine
To get profit without risk  experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
— A. P. Gouthey
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
— Herodotus
No one reaches a high position without daring.
— Publilius Syrus
Cadillacs are down at the end of the bat.
— Ralph Kiner
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.
— Theodore Roosevelt
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
— Flip Wilson
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
— Frederick B. Wilcox
You can't catch trout with dry breeches.
— Spanish proverb
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go  you gotta go.
— Lillian Carter
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
— David Lloyd George
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent  creative personality  for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
— Shirley Chisholm
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
— General George S. Patton
I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.
— Donna E. Shalala
Accept that all of us can be hurt  that all of us can-and surely will at times-fail. Other vulnerabilities  like being embarrassed or risking love  can be terrifying  too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst  take the risk.
— Dr. Joyce Brothers
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
— Jeannette Rankin
It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success.
— Robert Rawls
Entrepreneurs  in accepting risk  achieve security for all. In embracing change  they ensure social and economic stability.
— George Gilder
Those who cling to life die  and those who defy death live.
— Uyesugi Kenshin
And the trouble is  if you don't risk anything  you risk even more.
— Erica Jong
Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.
— Latin proverb
The rewards go to the risk-takers  those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer  fuller life for themselves.
— Susan RoAne
Every minute of life I take a risk  it's part of the enjoyment.
— Otto Preminger
Everything is sweetened by risk.
— Alexander Smith
My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.
— Diane Arbus
The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
— Maria De Beausacq
The soul should always stand ajar  ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
— Emily Dickinson
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
— Amelia Earhart
We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
— Randolph Bourne
A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.
— Mary O'Hara
I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened  and I'm not afraid to look behind them.
— Elizabeth Taylor
The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
— Kate Capshaw
Prudence keeps life safe  but does not often make it happy.
— Samuel Johnson
Between two evils  I always picked the one I never tried before.
— Mae West
Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
— Edith Wharton
Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The greater the obstacle  the more glory in overcoming it.
— Moliere
People who are born even-tempered  placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn  never become great saints.
— Eva Le Gallienne
The harder the conflict  the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply  we esteem too lightly  'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.
— Thomas Paine
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
— Pierre Corneille
There could be no honor in a sure success  but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
— T. E. Lawrence
There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
— James Branch Cabell
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
— Michael Curtiz
The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious  to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us  and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.
— Barbara Sher
For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
To play it safe is not to play.
— Robert Altman
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
— Charles F. Kettering
Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
— James A. Garfield
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
— Helen Keller
There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life  and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.
— Virginia Burden Tower
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth  and truth rewarded me.
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
In danger there is great power.
— Agnes Whistling Elk
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
— James Thurber
Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.
— General Douglas MacArthur
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem  they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy  a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed  but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one less traveled by-offers our last  our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
— Rachel Carson
To gain that which is worth having  it may be necessary to lose everything else.
— Bernadette Devlin
We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
— David Grayson
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through  of getting to the other side  the relief of a conflict healed  the clarity when a paradox dissolves.
— Marilyn Ferguson
No guts  no glory.
— Anonymous
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.
— Sonia Johnson
He gets a good hold on the paintbrush  then confidently has the ladder removed.
— Roger Vaughan
Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
— Charles Du Bos
If man is not ready to risk his life  where is his dignity?
— Andre Malraux
All serious daring starts from within.
— Eudora Welty
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury
We owe something to extravagance  for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
— Jennie Jerome Churchill
There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible  slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead  where there were no paths.
— Dorothy Parker
I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.
— The Palatine of Posnan
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
— Muriel Strode
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
— Joaquin Setanti
Creativity is inventing  experimenting  growing  taking risks  breaking rules  making mistakes  and having fun.
— Mary Lou Cook
I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life-even when it's a kick in the teeth.
— Polly Adler
Something must be left to chance  nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.
— Horatio Nelson
You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.
— Debbi Fields
We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.
— Maria Irene Fornes
I love the challenge.
— Nancy Lopez
Into the darkness they go  the wise and the lovely.
— Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Dare to be naive.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl  that's pretty seductive.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
What you teach your own children is what you really believe in.
— Cathy Warner Weatherford
Nothing arouses ambition so much as the trumpet clang of another's fame.
— Baltasar Gracian
I studied the lives of great men and famous women  and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand  with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.
— Harry S. Truman
It's true that heroes are inspiring  but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
— Jeanette Winterson
I believe in recovery  and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
— Ann Richards
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.
— Tyron Edwards
My heart is happy  my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.
— Hilde Bigelow
Examine the personality of the mother  who is the medium through which the primitive infant transforms herself into a socialized human being.
— Beata Rank
That some should be rich shows that others may become rich  and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
— Abraham Lincoln
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
— Charles H. Fowler
As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear  the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that  but the really great make you feel that you  too  can become great.
— Mark Twain
To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.
— Plutarch
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
— Oliver Goldsmith