The risk of a wrong decision is preferable
to the terror of indecision.
- Maimonides
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
- Maimonides
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
This report, by its very length, defends itself
against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill
The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
During the first period of a man's life
the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Recovery begins with embracing our pain
and taking the risk to share it with others.
We do this by joining a group
and talking about our pain.
- John Bradshaw
Be avid.
Create apart from perfection.
Risk failure.
Cover your words with sweat.
Run a little
Touch excruciatingly.
Laugh until you cry.
Dance with your eyes closed.
Care.
Understand you die a little in every moment.
Be Enlivened
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Children are curious and are risk takers.
They have lots of courage.
They venture out into a world
that is immense and dangerous.
A child initially trusts life
and the processes of life.
- John Bradshaw
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions,
the mobility and flow of risk capital...
the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital,
and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
- John F. Kennedy
This [the Holocaust] must never happen again. ...
Be vigilant about your rights.
Care about the rights and human dignity of others.
When the rights of any group, no matter how small,
no matter how marginal, are violated,
your liberty, your freedom is put at risk.
Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror
and have to ask the question, "How did it ever come to this?"
- Thomas Childers, Ph.D., Professor of History,
University of Pennsylvania, in the closing remarks
of his six-hour Teaching Company audio lecture series
When everything comes your way
you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous
The proper office of a friend is to side with you
when you are in the wrong.
Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.
- Mark Twain
There's nothing wrong with being afraid.
We were meant to be afraid.
- the Woody Allen movie Anything Else
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
- Ogden Nash
The man who can smile when things go wrong
has thought of someone else he can blame it on.
- Robert Bloch
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Give the right man two fishes and some bread,
and he will feed the world;
give the wrong man two fishes and some bread
and he will invent the fast-food fish sandwich.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
- Mo Udall
For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken
Lord, where we are wrong,
make us willing to change;
where we are right,
make us easy to live with.
- Peter Marshall
The most difficult thing in the world
is to know how to do a thing
and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment.
- Theodore. H. White
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
You know, it takes two to get one in trouble.
- the movie She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
Customs do not concern themselves
with right or wrong or reason.
But they have to be obeyed;
one reasons all around them until he is tired,
but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.
- Mark Twain
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
No persons are more frequently wrong,
than those who will not admit they are wrong.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong,
who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
- Bono
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
- Peter T. Mcintyre
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
Truth is always in harmony with herself,
and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice
that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
If you look into your own heart,
and you find nothing wrong there,
what is there to worry about?
What is there to fear?
- Confucius
Ignorance is preferable to error,
and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing
than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
If thy brother wrongs thee,
remember not so much his wrong-doing,
but more than ever that he is thy brother.
- Epictetus
Love is saying "I feel differently,"
instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Guilt says I've done something wrong;
... shame says there is something wrong with me.
Guilt says I've made a mistake;
... shame says I am a mistake.
Guilt says what did was not good;
... shame says I am no good.
- John Bradshaw
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil.
Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There are a number of things wrong with Washington.
One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love bravely, live bravely, be courageous;
there's really nothing to lose.
There's no wrong you can't make right again,
so be kinder to yourself;
have fun, take chances. There are no bounds.
- Jewel
When you are right you cannot be too radical;
when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing can stop the man with the right
mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man
with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
There is no "right", there is no "wrong" -
there are only points of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones;
to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson
All wrong-doing arises because of mind.
If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?
- The Buddha
There is nothing wrong with America
that faith, love of freedom, intelligence,
and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
War is an instrument entirely inefficient
toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.
- Thomas Jefferson
Stand with anybody that stands right,
stand with him while he is right
and part with him when he goes wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers,
but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- Antony Jay
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
There is nothing wrong with America
that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
- William J. Clinton
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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