Quotes About Risk

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

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
Al Gore

"Gain is commensurate with risk."
M. K. Soni

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw

"I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else."
Yanni

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt

"There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything."
Vauvenargues

"He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne."
Russian Proverb

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky

"If you check under your hood every few thousand miles, you will greatly reduce the risk of breaking down in a bad neighborhood.
Michelle C. Ustaszeski

"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."
Douglas MacArthur

"A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from People's Expectations of a Coach

"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and act."
Maxwell Maltz

"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold."
George Bernard Shaw

"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"
Robert H. Schuller

"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
Edward de Bono

"Taking risks, making mistakes, and learning from all experiences show the capacity for being human."
Steve Brunkhorst

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
James Bryant Conant

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Seneca

"The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning."
Charles Tremper

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
T.S. Elliot

"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."
Author Unknown

"It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually."
Abraham Maslow

"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf."
Shakti Gawain

"Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart."
Paulo Coelho

"To assure that you will never experience failure:
· don't take a risk,
· don't attempt anything new,
· don't expand on your ideas,
· don't set goals.
Never to do any of these things actually guarantees you will fail.
Catherine Pulsifer, from Failure Is A Golden Opportunity

"I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk."
Oprah Winfrey