Quotes on Risk-taking

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

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

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

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

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.

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.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

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.

The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

Destiny is no 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.

What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

In the absence of a great dream pettiness prevails. Shred visions foster risk taking, courage and innovation. Keeping the end in mind creates the confidence to make decisions even in moments of crisis.