60 Risk-Taking Quotes

Is your lifestyle mundane and boring? Are you ready to make gradual steps towards exciting opportunities? Here is a list of inspirational quotes to motivate your new endeavors. Risk taking doesn't have to be dangerous or unhealthy. You can be wise in your decision making and still enjoy the thrill of a new adventure. Educate yourself, explore new opportunities and make your dreams come true.

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself."
--Soren Kierkegaard

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."
--Frederick B. Wilcox

"Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting."
--Karl Wallenda

"We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint."
--Robert Frost

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
--Andre Gide

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
--Pierre Corneille

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

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
--Robert F. Kennedy

"Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
--Mark Twain

"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

"You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go."
--T.S. Eliot

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

"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."
--Cynthia Heimel

"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult."
--Seneca

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

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
--Frank Scully

"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."
--Paul Tillich

"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."
--Andre Malraux

"You must lose a fly to catch a trout"
--George Herbert

"You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen."
--Paulo Coelho

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

"A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for."
--John A. Shedd

"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!"
--General George S. Patton, Jr.

"Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at."
--Author Unknown

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

"If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good"
--Ezra Pound

"When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so."
--Aristotle

"I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
--Tim McMahon

"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

"What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?"
--Logan Pearsall Smith

"The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could."
--Paul Hogan

"The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all."
--Mignon McLaughlin

"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 Andrew Adams

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
--T.S. Eliot

"The two important things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision."
--Robyn Davidson

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I . . . I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
--Robert Frost

"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"
--Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

"The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life."
--Robert MacIver

"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"
--Jimmy Johnson

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.
--David Grayson

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
--Helen Keller

"The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."
--Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

"To eat an egg, you must break the shell."
--Jamaican Proverb

"What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit."
--John W. Gardner

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
--General George S. Patton

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
--André Gide

"Let's make a dent in the universe."
--Steve Jobs

"To win you have to risk loss."
--Jean-Claude Killy

"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?"
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done."
--Cardinal Newman

"If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win."
--John W. Holt, Jr.

"Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking."
--Jim McMahon

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

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

"Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome."
--Samuel Johnson

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
--William Shakespeare

"We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring."
--David Grayson

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

"I've always taken risks, and never worried what the world might really think of me."
--Cher

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