Quotes on Risk And Failure

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.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them 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 at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

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

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.

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.

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.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

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?

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

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

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.