#caution

I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution. ↗

— Ingrid Betancourt

#change

If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all. ↗

— Archer John Porter Martin

#discouraged #every #first #often #precaution

You can’t win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose. ↗

— Jack Campbell

#courage #victory #win #courage

You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm ↗

— Jack London

#fulfillment #life #reservation #life

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#chief #chief danger #danger #many #may

I need a Caution: Slippery When Wet sign, because I just spilled my ego all over the floor.
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— Jarod Kintz

#ego #floor #funny #humor #need

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. ↗

— Alvin Toffler

#caution #daring #err #side #than

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#always #apply #caution #cold #cold war

We must substitute courage for caution. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#courage #courage