Risk Quotes

1. If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong

2. Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. - Ray Bradbury

3. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. -Muhammad Ali

4. When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder. - W. J. Slim

5. 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

6. 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

7. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. - Jim Rohn

8. To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard

9. Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. - Frederick B. Wilcox

10. Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid. - Basil King

11. Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? - Frank Scully

12. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie

13. Everything you want is on the other side of fear. - Jack Canfield

14. You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson

15. Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. - Unknown

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

17. If your life is ever going to get better, you’ll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances. - David Viscott

18. If you play it safe in life, you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow anymore. -Shirley Hufstedler

19. The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success. - Unknown

20. It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late. - Marilyn Kennedy

21. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. - Unknown

22. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot

23. Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. - Herodotus

24. The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. -Marquis De Vauvenargues

25. The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything. - Denis Waitley

26. Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. - Lloyd Jones

27. Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for. - Zig Ziglar

28. Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing taking. - Tim McMahon

29. People who take risks are the people you’ll lose against. - John Sculley

30. Fear to let fall a drop and you spill a lot. - Malay Proverb

31. Look twice before you leap. - Charlotte Bronte

32. Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves. - Marilyn Ferguson

33. The greatest risk is refusing to risk; the greatest failure is refusing to try. - Lloyd Newell

34. Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. - Mary Tyler Moore

35. Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself. - Kenneth S. Davis

36. Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr

37. Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. - Robert Collier

38. Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight
For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light. - Oscar Wilde

39. It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle. - Richard M. DeVos

40. Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. - Harry A. Hopf

41. The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers. - Brian Tracy

42. Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward. - Robert Collier

43. The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think. - Seth Godin

44. Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate. - Seth Godin

45. If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances. - David Viscott

46. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live. - William Arthur Ward

47. The real risk is doing nothing. - Denis Waitley

48. The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. - Michelangelo

49. Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise it would be called sure-thing taking. - Tim McMahon

50. Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The 'sure thing' boat never gets far from shore. - Dale Carnegie

51. When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. - Kenneth Kaunda

52. We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring. - David Grayson

53. Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. - Mary Kay Ash

54. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. - Alan Alda

55. I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. - A.E. Hotchner

56. 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

57. All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie

58. If your life is ever going to get better, you’ll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances. - David Viscott 

59. You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open. - Elizabeth Berg 

60. You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk. - Rosalynn Carter

61. You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you're doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. - George Lucas

62. You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. - Paulo Coelho

63. The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success. - Unknown

64. There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy