Shirley Chisholm Quotes

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

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

Any goal worth achieving involves an element of risk.

In order to do something really good, you have to take risks - that's what I do.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either.

You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. I think when you take the big swings - and I've done plenty of big swings that I was told were never going to work - those are always the things that break through.

Nothing changes if we keep playing it safe.

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

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

I've gone out on limbs, flung far, and Forrest-Gumped my way into the center of the action.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

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.

I think it's important to take chances.

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

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

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

We need to risk, we need to dare to risk and fail greatly because that's the only way we grow.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.