Taking Risks Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old taking risks quotes, taking risks sayings, and taking risks proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for. Albert Einstein
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. General George S. Patton
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. Unkown
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
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
Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do. H. Jackson Brown
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success. Henry David Thoreau
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first. Frederick B. Wilcox
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
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. African Proverb
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. Elinor Smith
There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, What happened Casey Stengel
If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin. Ivan Turgenev
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
There is a time for daring and a time for caution, and a wise man knows which is called for. John Keating
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. Katharine B. Hathaway
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Abraham Lincoln
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best. Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
Without risk, there can be no growth. Bear Grylls
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure Bill Cosby
People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction. Brian Halligan
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. Dale Carnegie
Do one thing every day that scares you Eleanor Roosevelt
When you try to do something you've never done before, you risk falling on your face Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly. Eric Maisel
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. Ernest Hemingway