Bret Harte Quotes

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not.

Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Never surrender opportunity for security.

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

I see no point in exchanging something that I understand, know, love and think will have a great future for something else that I know much less about.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

You cannot take all the chances you get.

When in doubt, punt!

I don't know the future.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

Uncertainty is the enemy of prosperity.

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

It seems at times fate knocks on people's door, and they are too afraid to pursue it.