Quotes on Great 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.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

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

Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

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

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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