By exposing yourself to risk, you’re exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you’re learning from the school of hard knocks, which is the best education available. – Gifford Pinchot
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. – Earl Nightingale
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 (author, 1888-1923)
Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water. – David Viscott
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. – James B. Conant
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 people who are playing it totally safe are never going to have either the fun or the reward of the people who decide to take some risk, stick out, do it differently. – John Akers
People who take risks are the people you’ll lose against. – John Sculley
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. – Robert F. Kennedy
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I… I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. – Soren Kierkegaard
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. – Frederick B. Wilcox
Do one thing every day that scares you. – Eleanor Roosevelt
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. – John F. Kennedy
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. – Leonard da Vinci
Leap and the net will appear. – Proverb
What is life, but one long risk? – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. – Samuel Johnson
Danger can never be overcome without taking risks. – Latin Proverb
This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks. – Ronald Reagan
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. – Cadet Maxim
Success comes from having a chance or taking a chance – comes from improving an opportunity or creating one. – F.D. Van Amburgh, The Mental Spark Plug, 1923
You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes, because that’s where the fruit is. – Will Rogers
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. – Billy Wilder
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille
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
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. – Herodotus
Nought venture nought have. – John Heywood (1546)
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