There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Theodore Roosevelt

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George Washington

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
Walt Disney

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
Steven Wright

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Will Rogers

If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
W. C. Fields

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

A man in debt is so far a slave.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
Jack Welch

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
Mae West

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Sun Tzu