Bill Clinton Quotes

I don’t care about risk, honestly. The riskiest thing to do is not to act. I would far rather try and fail than fail not trying.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

You don't achieve anything by playing it safe.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

To achieve truly important things you have to be willing to put your personal reputation on the line …

I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.

I believe one is not going to get anywhere by sitting and planning too much. The point is to keep doing, and what will happen will happen.

The only failure is not trying.

They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" - and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all".

Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

You will never win if you never begin.

Don't wait. If it's not right, move on.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.