Risk Taking Quotes

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T.S. Eliot

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the

- Winston Churchill

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won`t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart

- Paulo Coelho

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"

- Mark Twain

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

- Robert Frost

Creative people who can`t help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

- R.D. Laing

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Andre Gide

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

- Andre Malraux

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

- Jim Rohn

If you`re not making mistakes, you`re not taking risks, and that means you`re not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win.

- John W. Holt, Jr.

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

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

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

- Paul Tillich

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don`t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

- Philip Andrew Adams