Risk Quotes

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

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.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

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

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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!

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes.

Remember, a dead fish can float down a stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

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.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.