Quotes on Risk And Success

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

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

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.

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

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.

The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

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.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.