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Famous Risk Quotes
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. – Ellen DeGeneres
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T. S. Eliot
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause. – Theodore Roosevelt
You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. – Chuck Yeager
To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille

Creative risk-taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity. – Gary Ryan Blair
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
Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. – Roger Von Oech
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
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. – Paul Tillich
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. – Jim Mcmahon
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. – Peter F. Drucker
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. – General George Patton
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. – Geena Davis
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. – Ray Bradbury
During the first period of a man’s life, the danger is not to take the risk. – Soren Kierkegaard
I believe that one of life’s greatest risks is never daring to risk. – Oprah Winfrey
Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else. – Alex Noble
If you don’t risk anything you risk even more. – Erica Jong
The one who does not risk anything does not gain nor lose. – Vikrant Parsai
Everything is sweetened by risk. – Alexander Smith
Risk — If one has 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. – Persian Proverb
If we allow risk to be a fear, then we are sure not to succeed. But, if we approach risk with proper planning, and a good attitude, then most times we can minimize the risk and use it to our advantage. – Catherine Pulsifer
As we risk ourselves, we grow. Each new experience is a risk. – Fran Watson
Risk is, for some people, the fear of failure. If they take no risks, they have no failure but failure, as like risks, can be a great teacher. Don’t let fear stop you from taking a risk to achieve your dreams. – Catherine Pulsifer
He who doesn’t risk never gets to drink champagne. – Russian Proverb
To achieve your goals, you may have to take a risk. However, it is better to risk than to do nothing. – Catherine Pulsifer
Risks are a measure of people. People who won’t take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more. – Paul Arden
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. – Warren Buffett
It takes risks to achieve. It’s often scary. It requires something you didn’t know before or a skill you didn’t have before. But in the end, it’s worth it. – Jack Canfield
I take risks to find clever and exciting solutions. – Peter Folkes
Risk creates the conditions under which a certain creativity can manifest itself. Different materials force different risks and evoke different perceptions. – Lorne Coutts
The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. – Mark Zuckerberg
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. – Paulo Coelho
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another goes at it. It’s very important to take enormous risks. – Mary Quant
It’s important to take risks but it’s idiotic to take them blindly. – Terry Levine
Risk is like fire: If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you. – Theodore Roosevelt
Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are. – Joan L. Curcio
It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success. – Robert Rawls
What you risk reveals what you value. – Jeanette Winterson
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolve. – Marilyn Ferguson
There can be no great accomplishment without risk. – Neil Armstrong
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the risks of inaction. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living. – Covey
If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there? – Les Brown
Only the person who risks is truly free. – William Arthur Ward
There’s as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. – Trammel Crow
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