Risk Quotes

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The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.

- Mark Twain

The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become.

- Charles Dickens

Many of us are afraid to follow our passions, to pursue what we want most because it means taking risks and even facing failure. But to pursue your passion with all your heart and soul is success in itself. The greatest failure is to have never really tried.

- Robyn Allen

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.

- Christopher Reeve

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

- Vincent van Gogh

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.

- Martha Nussbaum

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

- Vincent van Gogh

Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first.

- Mike Todd

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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

- Vincent van Gogh

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

- Oscar Wilde

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.

- Frederick Wilcox

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

- G. K. Chesterton

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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

- Paul Tillich

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

- Brian Tracy

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Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

- Mark Twain

The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.

- Denis Waitley

The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. (adapted)

- Lloyd Jones

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.

- Winston Churchill

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

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain