Risks In Life Quotes

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

Courage, Humor, Greatness

Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.215, Melville House

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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Geena Davis

Wisdom, Risk, Ifs

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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Leo Buscaglia

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

"The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

Maxwell Maltz

Success, Christian, Differences

"Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Mark Zuckerberg

Inspirational, Morning, Business

"Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg -- Insights For Entrepreneurs" by Steve Tobak, www.cbsnews.com. October 31, 2011.

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

Denis Waitley

Life, Stay Positive, Risk

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Esteem, Careers, Will And Determination

Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert Kennedy

Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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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.

Claude Bissell

Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

Katherine Mansfield

Risk, Earth, Take A Chance

Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Helen Keller

Death, Spiritual, Courage

Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Ellen DeGeneres

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

J. K. Rowling

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Greatness, Safety, Risk

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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Rosalyn Drexler

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

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Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Jim McMahon

Motivational, Failure, Risk

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The best revenge is the massive success.

Frank Sinatra

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.

William Arthur Ward

Life, Deep Love, Climbing

William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Julia Margaret Cameron

Positive, Success, Faith

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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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Mary Tyler Moore

Inspirational, Positive, Courage

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