Leslie H. Gelb Quotes

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Temerity is not always successful.

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

My mantra in life is 'nothing ventured, nothing gained,' and I very strongly stick by it.

As stars, we need to take risks, and I was up for those challenges.

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

I've never been afraid to fail.

You must play boldly to win.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

In life you need to take a risk.

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

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

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

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

I think it's important to take chances.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And Bernie Mac is not afraid to fail.