Quotes on Risk-taking

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

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Well, I do think, particularly the way I work, the better images occur when you're moving to the fringes of your own understanding. That's where self-doubt and risk taking are likely to occur. It's when you trust what's happening at a non-intellectual non-conscious level that you can produce work that later resonates, often in a way that you can't articulate a response to.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

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

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.