70 Of The Very Best Quotes On Taking Risks

~Quotes On Taking Risks~

1. To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily.  To not dare is to lose oneself-Soren Kierkegaard
2. I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it-Pablo Picasso
3. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I’m not afraid of falling into my inkpot-Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. Progress always involves risks.  You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first-Frederick B. Wilcox
5. Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at-Anon
6. If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul-Drew Barrymore
7. The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all-Mignon McLaughlin
8. You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take-Wayne Gretzky
9. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean-G.K. Chesterton
10. A ship in harbor is safe – but that is not what ships are for-John A. Shedd
11. To eat an egg, you must break the shell-Jamaican Proverb
12. To win you have to risk loss-Jean-Claude Killy
13. The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.  It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny-Napoleon Bonaparte
14. If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances-Julia Sorel
15. Take risks:  if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise-Anon
16. Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy-Samuel Johnson
17. The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success-Anon
18. Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome-Samuel Johnson
19. Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly-Robert F. Kennedy
20. It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars- Garrison Keillor
21. Why live on the edge when you can jump off it?-Sign at Macau Tower Bungy Jump
22. Adventure is what happens when you just did something stupid-Professor Bernie
23. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult-Seneca
24. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?-Robert H. Schuller
25. You must lose a fly to catch a trout-George Herbert
26. Never be afraid to try something new.  Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic-Anon
27. If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?-Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
28. It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.-André Gide
29. There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything-Vauvenargues
30. One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked-Chinese Proverb
31. One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time-André Gide
32. Behold the turtle.  He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out-James Bryant Conant
33. We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring-David Grayson
34. Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down-Ray Bradbury
35. Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have- Oprah Winfrey
36. No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause-Theodore Roosevelt
37. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go-T. S. Eliot
38. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary-Jim Rohn
39. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit-e. e. Cummings
40. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open-Chuck Palahniuk
41. It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win-John Paul Jones
42. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together-Earl Nightingale
43. Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing-Denis Waitley
44. Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free-Paul Tillich
45. There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk-Drew Barrymore
46. You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done-Chuck Yeager
47. Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not-Vaclav Havel
48. To win without risk is to triumph without glory-Pierre Corneille
49. Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves-Walter Anderson
50. When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given-Barbara Sher
51. Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day-Roger von Oech
52. You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living-Fernando Flores
53. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live-Leo F. Buscaglia
54. 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
55. He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being-Paul Tillich
56. It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all-William James
57. If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good-Ezra Pound
58. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I… I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference-Robert Frost
59. The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore-Vincent van Gogh
60. The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become-W. E. B. Du Bois
61. Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game-Winston Churchill
62. It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late-Marilyn Moats Kennedy
63. How does one become a butterfly?’ she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar-Trina Paulus
64. Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible-Cadet Maxim
65. If you want to stand out, don’t be different. Be outstanding-Meredith West
66. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all-Helen Keller
67. Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better-Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. If you dare nothing then when the day is over,nothing is all you will have gained-Neil Gaiman
69. If there is no risk, there is no reward-Christy Raedeke
70. Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary-Iveta Cherneva

~Quotes On Taking Risks~