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Quotes About Risks and Taking Chances

By exposing yourself to risk, you’re exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you’re learning from the school of hard knocks, which is the best education available. – Gifford Pinchot

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. – Earl Nightingale

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 (author, 1888-1923)

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water. – David Viscott

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

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. – James B. Conant

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

The people who are playing it totally safe are never going to have either the fun or the reward of the people who decide to take some risk, stick out, do it differently. – John Akers

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

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy

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

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

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

Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan

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. – John F. Kennedy

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. – Leonard da Vinci

Leap and the net will appear. – Proverb

What is life, but one long risk? – Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. – Samuel Johnson

Danger can never be overcome without taking risks. – Latin Proverb

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks. – Ronald Reagan

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

Success comes from having a chance or taking a chance – comes from improving an opportunity or creating one. – F.D. Van Amburgh, The Mental Spark Plug, 1923

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes, because that’s where the fruit is. – Will Rogers

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. – Billy Wilder

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille

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

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. – Herodotus

Nought venture nought have. – John Heywood (1546)


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  1. Ashley says

    October 4, 2012 at 8:11 am

    To take risk we need motivation and inspiration from some sources, quotes could be one of the best idea. And I loved your quotes collection.

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