Risks

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out for another is to risk involvement.

To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To hope is to risk despair.

To try is to risk failure.

But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.

They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, or live.

Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves, they have forfeited their freedom.

Only a person who risks is free.

Don't Quit

When things go wrong,

As they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit-

Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don't give up though the pace seems slow-

You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out-

The silver tint of the clouds of doubts,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems so far,

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit

It's when things seem worst that you mustn't quit.

- By Author Unknown

Lehron se dar kar nauka paar nahi hoti...

Lehron se dar kar nauka paar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti

Nanhi cheenti jab daana lekar chalti hai

chadhti deewaron par sau baar fisalti hai 

Mann ka vishwaas ragon mein saahas bharta hai

chadh kar girna, gir kar chadna na akharta hai

Aakhir uski mehnat bekaar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti

Dubkiyan sindhu mein gota khor lagaata hai

ja ja kar khaali haath laut aata hai

Milte na sahaj hi moti paani mein

badta doogna utsaah issi hairaani main

Mutthi uski khaali har baar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti

Asafalta ek chunauti hai, sweekaar karo

kya kami reh gayi, dekho aur sudhaar karo

Jab tak na safal ho neend chain ko tyaago tum

sangharshon ka maidaan chhodh mat bhago tum

Kuch kiye bina he jai jai kaar nahi hoti

himmat karne waalon ki haar nahi hoti

-By Harivansh Rai Bachchan