“Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer
Source: The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book
“A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for.”
Source: The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives
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