Risk Taking Quotes

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

~ Richard Brookhiser

Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The desire to swim in deeper waters is what gives a greater experience. Nothing new comes out of being ordinary. Leaders take risks.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

~ Teresa R. Funke

Work hard and take risks. Try it before you confirm it is difficult!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

People regret not achieving enough success in life, they should regret missing many opportunities in life.

~ Amit Kalantri

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

~ Gina Greenlee

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

~ Gina Greenlee

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.

~ Gina Greenlee

Those do dare take risks, shall fulfill their passions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

~ Tamera Alexander

No struggle, no success! The strongest thunder strikes often bring the heaviest rainfall! The weight of your fulfillment depends on how wide you cast your nets!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents’ and his grandparents’ generation have got through molding it. We can’t help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you:Remember we really don’t know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don’t know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.

~ Lincoln Steffens

Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime ‘let out all the length of the reins.

~ Mary Cholmondeley

Risk is the unique path to success.

~ Adria J. Cimino

It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

~ Gina Greenlee

Where there is a risk, there is a wealth.

~ Auliq Ice

Those who dare take risks shall fulfill their passions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn't about getting stuff or attaining something. It's about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him. He is our dream come true, and the one true love of our life. But we can't love him with our whole hearts when our hearts are asleep. To love Jesus means to risk coming awake, to risk wanting and desiring.

~ Stasi Eldredge

Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.

~ Ken Jennings

What I'm getting at here is that you can be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.

~ Sophia Amoruso

Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.

~ Gina Greenlee

The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change.

~ Rik Leaf

Risk the risks.

~ Lauren Lola

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

~ Nick Cave

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.

~ Earl Nightingale

I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

~ Susan Oakey-Baker

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

~ Anne Tyler

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

~ Carla H. Krueger

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

~ Ryan Lilly

The ignoramus crow of love it or leave it omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

~ Bryant Mcgill

To live a life of excellence, you will have to take risks. You will have to step into new territory and climb new mountains. If you’re up to something that’s as big as you are, it’s going to be scary. If it feels perfectly safe, you are probably underachieving. To leave your mark in the world, you will have to stand someplace you’ve never been willing to stand before. And you will have to have the courage to aspire to excellence.

~ Debbie Ford

CRITICISM is part of LEARNING and GROWTH. It means that you are taking INITIATIVES to learn something new and grow over from your current state. If you are not getting criticised, it means you are not taking enough RISK to learn something new and to grow.

~ Sanjeev Himachali

Joining a gang is like sky diving without a parachute. Oh, at first it’s all fun, as you take on gravity in a thrilling and exhilarating free fall towards earth. The truth is, anything that is risky and dangerous always starts out as fun. But the odds are always stacked in gravity’s favor, for you will eventually come face to face with the earth, and mother earth always wins those battles. The same thing can be said about being in a gang.

~ Drexel Deal

The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?

~ Gina Greenlee

Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.

~ Tania Aebi