Risk Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“‘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

“It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who—at the best—knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who—at the worst—at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn’t are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did. ”
– Lincoln Steffens

“If you want to stand out, don’t be different. Be outstanding.”
– Meredith West

“Don’t refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase – that’s what wild geese are for.”
– Unknown

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. ”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“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

“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? ”
– Franck Scully

“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.”
– Tim Mcmohan

“Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.”
– Unknown

“If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul. ”
– Drew Barrymore

“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all. ”
– Mignon Mclaughlin

“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky

“What is more mortifying than to feel you’ve missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree? ”
– Logan Pearsall Smithh

“To eat an egg, you must break the shell. ”
– Jamaican Proverb

“To win you have to risk loss. ”
– Jean Claude Killy

“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. ”
– Julia Sorel

“Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wiser.”
– Unknown

“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.”
– Unknown

“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

“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. ”
– Unknown

“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

“It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars. ”
– Garrison Keillor

“Why live on the edge when you can jump off it?”
– Sign at Macau Tower Bungy Jump

“Adventure is what happens when you just did something stupid. ”
– Professor Bernie

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
– Seneca

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