Quotes on Taking Risks

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

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 don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.

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.

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

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

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.

I've always believed fitness is an entry point to help you build that happier, healthier life. When your health is strong, you're capable of taking risks. You'll feel more confident to ask for the promotion. You'll have more energy to be a better mom. You'll feel more deserving of love.

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.

For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments on waves larger than life. We do this because we know there is still something greater than all of us. Something that inspires us spiritually. We start going down hill, when we stop taking risks.

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?

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

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.