Quotes on Risk-taking

So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.

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?

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

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

If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.

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

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

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

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

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

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

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.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

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

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

Disruption is about risk-taking. _x000D_ But then you become a Fortune _x000D_ 500 company, which is about risk _x000D_ mitigation

You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything. Everything.