CURATED COLLECTION

Taking Risks

The safe path and the meaningful path are not always the same path — on the wisdom of leaping.

39 quotes found

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

—Margaret MeadCultural Anthropologist

Post-War ERA • North America

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The future is unwritten, waiting for the brave to dream and act upon it.

—Gioconda BelliPoet & Novelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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We are new, brave, and the dawn is ours.

—Endre AdyPoet & Journalist

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Life is like a ship, which must brave the storms and not just anchor in port.

—Ba JinNovelist & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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To change is to be brave. To stay the same is to be a coward.

—Buchi EmechetaNovelist

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

—Ousmane SembèneNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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We must learn to transform our rage into powerful, constructive action.

—Leymah GboweeActivist

Contemporary ERA • West Africa

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One must not forget the courage to resist and rebel.

—Ding LingFeminist & Writer

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great enterprises.

—DemosthenesStatesman & Orator

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing.

—Wangari MaathaiActivist

Contemporary ERA • East Africa

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The world is a bride, and destiny her adornment. He who desires her must strive.

—Nizami GanjaviEpic Poet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

—Florence NightingaleReformer

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Progress is never inevitable. It requires struggle and constant vigilance.

—Barack ObamaPresident

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

—Angela DavisActivist & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • North America

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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

—Dr. SeussAuthor & Illustrator

Post-War ERA • North America

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With my body, I shall bear witness to the dawn of a new China.

—Qiu JinFeminist, Revolutionary & Poet

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

—John F. KennedyPresident

Post-War ERA • North America

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Sometimes you gotta jump off a cliff and figure out how to fly on the way down.

—Tiffany HaddishScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

—Roald DahlNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Western Europe

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We have no right to expect any change in the conditions of women unless we make the change ourselves.

—Elizabeth BlackwellPhysician

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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