Risk Quotes, Quotations and Sayings
As we risk ourselves, we grow. Each new experience is a risk.
Fran Watson
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton
Don’t refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase – that’s what wild geese are for.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
Cynthia Heimel
I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick B. Wilcox
Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
Tim McMahon
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Wayne Gretzky
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room.
Jayne Howard
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G.K. Chesterton
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
What is more mortifying than to feel you’ve missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?
Logan Pearsall Smith
A ship in harbor is safe – but that is not what ships are for.
John A. Shedd
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.
David Grayson
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
I don’t think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Lillian Carter
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
M. Scott Peck
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus
If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel
To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is nothing in the world so wonderful as to love and be loved; there is nothing so devastating as love lost.
Life is a risk.”
Diane Von Furstenberg
To win you have to risk loss.
Jean-Claude Killy
The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.
Robert MacIver
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
Mignon McLaughlin
It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.
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Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
Samuel Johnson
This nation was built by men who took risks – pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
Brooks Atkinson
The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.
If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.
Win Borden
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
Quevedo
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
James Thurber
Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.
Cesar Chavez
The average man’s judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Edgar Watson Howe
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.
Isaac Asimov
The biggest risk in life is to risk nothing at all
Anonymous
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul Tillich
During the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
Soren Kierkegaard
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
Maxwell Maltz
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure.
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
George Herbert
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Adams
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
Dare to be naive.
Buckminster Fuller
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
André Gide
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
Vauvenargues
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield
To eat an egg, you must break the shell.
Proverb
If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
Oscar Wilde
Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
H. Jackson Browne