Risk QuotesRisk quotes encourage wild leaps of faith. All progress requires risk. Some consider risk the four-letter ‘R’ word. Risk can be a red light word or a green light word. What is it for you? I’m visualizing green. Green as in ‘go’. Read more... Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. Alan Alda I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. Maya Angelou Come to the edge. We can’t. We’re afraid. Come to the edge. We can’t. We’ll fall! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. Guillaume Apollinaire The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. Roger Babson To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been. Chester Barnard Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. Sir Cecil Beaton If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Everything in life is based on daring. Martin Buber The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Leo Buscaglia Leap and the net will appear. Julia Cameron Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for love. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end. Paulo Coelho Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun. Mary Lou Cook What is a friend? I will tell you. It is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. Frank Crane To be nobody but myself-in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me somebody else-means to fight the hardest battle any human can fight, and never stop fighting. e.e. cummings If you risk nothing, you risk everything. Geena Davis It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. Miles Davis Action makes more fortune than caution. Luc De Clapiers Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. Bernadette Devlin Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance, the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart, and I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again. Oriah Mountain Dreamer Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter F. Drucker Adventure is worthwhile. Amelia Earhart Only those who risk going too far know how far they can go. T.S. Eliot It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. Ralph Waldo Emerson The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. Debbi Fields Thomas Edison tried 10,000 different materials before finding one that was suitable to serve as a light bulb filament. So if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. We need to set up a system where risk is rewarded. One where we recognize that failure helps us to increase our creativity. Nothing risked is nothing gained. Beth Flynn All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask...: What can I do that is different? Debbie Ford You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing. Lewis Freedman Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on. Gloria Gaither The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. Shakti Gawain I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism. Elizabeth Gilbert You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capabilities, then go beyond to a higher level. Alexander Haig Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie. Herbie Hancock 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 Go on with a spirit that fears nothing. Homer A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. Grace Hopper So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don’t sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late. Lee Iacocca In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. Michael Jackson Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. Storm Jameson Take a risk a day – one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it. Susan Jeffers Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. Franz Kafka Try and fail, but don't fail to try. Stephen Kaggwa The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don’t dare reveal. Elia Kazan Life is a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the risks of inaction. John Fitzgerald Kennedy An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. Victor Kiam Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. Victor Kiam Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. Tracy Kidder A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. Henry Kravis If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk. Madeleine L’Engle When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. Audre Lorde One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new. Harvey Mackay Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who do not court the creative muses. Eric Maisel We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. Maxwell Maltz I will not die an unlived life…I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me…I choose to risk my significance. Dawna Markova Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream. Peter McWilliams All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Miller All progress occurs because people dare to be different. Harry Milner Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. Jim Morrison With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. Keshavan Nair A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable. Friedrich Nietzsche I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by loving. Anaïs Nin There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin Leap! There is nowhere to fall but into the arms of grace. Marta Davidovich Ockuly Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. Norman Vincent Peale 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 Everything in life is writable if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. Sylvia Plath Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. Norman B. Rice If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. Dame Anita Roddick You gain strength, courage, and confidence in every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt The country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. Roosevelt It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream; you've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. Diana Ross Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive – the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Miguel Ángel Ruiz Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond. Rumi We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton Dare to be wrong and to dream. Friedrich von Schiller If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. Robert H. Schuller What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. Seneca Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves. Merle Shain Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. Gail Sheehy When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given. Barbara Sher Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway? Barbra Streisand The shell must break before the bird can fly. Alfred Lord Tennyson Life is an adventure, dare it. Mother Teresa I've found luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. Brian Tracy Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? Mark Twain With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. Mark Twain One must work and dare if one really wants to live. Vincent van Gogh A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. Denis Waitley All glory comes from daring to begin. Eugene F. Ware Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. Wendy Wasserstein What you risk reveals what you value. Jeanette Winterson Return from Risk Quotes, Risk Quotations and Sayings about Risk to Quotes Listed by Subject
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