Risk Taking Quotes
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." George S. Patton
"As we risk ourselves, we grow. Each new experience is a risk." Fran Watson
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory." Pierre Corneille
"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise." Author Unknown
"If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room." Jayne Howard
"It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever." Philip Adams
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." Katherine Mansfield
"To eat an egg, you must break the shell." Proverb
"If you don't risk anything you risk even more." Erica Jong
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." H. Jackson Browne
"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first." Frederick B. Wilcox
"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all." Jawaharlal Nehru
"Life is a risk."
Diane Von Furstenberg
"To win you have to risk loss." Jean-Claude Killy
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go." Lillian Carter
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks." Herodotus
"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances." Julia Sorel
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." Joaquin Setanti
"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community." M. Scott Peck
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anais Nin
"Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it " Proverb
"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." Walter Anderson
"What you risk reveals what you value." Jeanette Winterson
"The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith." George E. Woodberry
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed." Strom Jameson
"Often, people stay in jobs that they despise rather than taking a risk by changing their work to an area that they love. Sometimes, we fall into the trap of thinking we are secure in our positions, and believe it is better to remain where we are rather than change jobs." Catherine Pulsifer, from Love What You Do
"It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question." Magdalena Abakanowicz
"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks." Helmuth von Moltke
"One must pick and choose one's battles in life or risk living in many emotional foxholes." Donald S. Neviaser
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." J Danforth Quayle
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