Risk Quotes

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

What you risk reveals what you value.

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.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Life is a risk.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

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.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

The biggest risk is not taking one.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

When in doubt, do it.

We should not criticise those who trip by taking a more difficult than usual step.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

In the long run, you only hit what you aim at.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

A man who never made a mistake never made anything.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium.

Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Nothing noble is done without risk.

�Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.

If the primary aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.