Take a risk quotes

Enjoy these famous quotes about taking risks:

* "Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." -- Jimmy Carter

* "Do not fear mistakes. There are none." -- Miles Davis

* "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 the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is 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 F. Buscaglia

quotegarden.com Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase - that's what wild geese are for.  ~Author Unknown To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.  To not dare is to lose oneself.  ~Soren Kierkegaard 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, "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics" I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Progress always involves risks.  You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.  ~Frederick B. Wilcox Why not go out on a limb?  Isn't that where the fruit is?  ~Frank Scully Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone.  Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.  ~Tim McMahon Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.  ~Author Unknown If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.  ~Drew Barrymore The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.  ~Wayne Gretzky I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.  ~G.K. Chesterton What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?  ~Logan Pearsall Smith A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for.  ~John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic To eat an egg, you must break the shell.  ~Jamaican Proverb To win you have to risk loss.  ~Jean-Claude Killy The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.  It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.  ~Napoleon Bonaparte If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.  ~Julia Sorel (Rosalyn Drexler), See How She Runs, 1978 Take risks:  if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.  ~Author Unknown Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.  ~Samuel Johnson This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.  ~Brooks Atkinson The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.  ~Author Unknown 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 Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure.  ~Author Unknown Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.  ~Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, 1759 Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.  ~Robert F. Kennedy It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.  ~Garrison Keillor Why live on the edge when you can jump off it? ~Sign at Macau Tower Bungy Jump Adventure is what happens when you just did something stupid. ~Professor Bernie It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.  ~Seneca What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?  ~Robert H. Schuller You must lose a fly to catch a trout.  ~George Herbert While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.  ~Abigail van Buren I hugged safety close to my chest and kissed risk full on the lips. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.  ~Lord Chesterfield Often we... expect and want every day to be just like today.  Even though we're not satisfied with today, we settle for security instead of discovery.  ~Stephen G. Scalese, The Whisper in Your Heart Never be afraid to try something new.  Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.  ~Author Unknown Adventure may hurt but monotony will kill you. ~Author Unknown If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?  ~Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Dare to be naive.  ~Buckminster Fuller It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.  ~André Gide 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 There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.  ~Vauvenargues One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.  ~Chinese Proverb Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.  All life is an experiment.  The more experiments you make the better.  What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn?  What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice.  Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.  ~André Gide Behold the turtle.  He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.  ~James Bryant Conant You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.  ~James Thurber We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.  ~David Grayson Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.  ~Ray Bradbury