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Contents

INTRODUCTION
GENERAL Risk-Taking Quotes
THE PENALTY OF NOT TAKING THE CHANCE
NOT WORRYING ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK
FINDING YOUR SOULMATE
AMBITION
MEN
FEMINISM
FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
FUNNY
Conclusion

References

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INTRODUCTION
Quotes are great because they take the noise out of communication. Simple and to the point,
they quickly show you what you may already know, but ignore, or hit you in the face with reality.

For better or worse, a quote has the power to take a person’s whole life and boil it down to one
powerful passage for us to remember. But knowing something isn't the same as acting on it.
Knowledge without action won't get you where you want to be. Learn, or be reminded and then
ACT. You'll then learn more.

These risk taking inspirational quotes acknowledge that life is full of risks and that no outcome is
ever 100% certain. No matter what you do, you have to take risks. But although nothing is ever
guaranteed, taking calculated risks is the only way to move forward and advance your life.

You can’t progress and grow if fear of the unknown prevents you from making the commitment,
and taking the leap of faith while leaving your comfort zone. You simply cannot live your most
fulfilling life if you choose not to take chances in life. There is never a perfect time for you to take
action.

Here are some powerful quotes about taking risks that we hope will inspire you to take that leap
of faith with courage to forge through the unknown, so that not only does it become familiar, but
you develop the competence and ultimately the confidence knowing you can do it well.

In deciding whether to take the risk, we want to be aware of a reality in life that has been an
accepted principle for many years. It is often referred to as the 4 C’s.

Essentially, for anyone to achieve a major breakthrough in life, regardless of their successes in
the past, everyone must go through a series of stages when endeavoring to engage in a new
activity, project, skill, job, or ability. It matters not how much money you have, your past history,
your education or what you wish would happen…you must go through these 4 stages if you are
to achieve a major breakthrough.

Here it is: The 1st C represents commitment. You must decide and agree with a promise to
yourself (and possibly others as well) that you are committed to learning and doing this new
thing which you have never done before. Thus, you commit to a result.

The 2nd C represents courage. This is the most difficult of all the stages, because you will be in
unknown territory, doing something that right now despite your commitment, you don’t know
how to do it and you don’t know if you are going to be able to do it well.

All of us admire, appreciate and applaud courage in others, but we don’t like to act with only
courage since it is uncomfortable, creating anxiety and uncertainty. Unfortunately, you can’t
skip this stage, though many have tried.
You must have the courage to move forward despite it being outside your “comfort zone” to
learn and practice at this new skill, job, process, even hobby, despite this uncertainty if you are
to achieve a major breakthrough.

The 3rd C represents capability or competence. This happens after and as a result of your
commitment and courage that has carried you to the point of being competent as needed to
perform this new skill. You are now competent in doing this formerly new thing.

The 4th C stands for confidence. When you have achieved the competence to do something
you have never done before and didn’t know whether you would be able to do it and do it well,
and you have now achieved your result, your reward is confidence. And with that confidence
you no longer need to rely solely on courage as in the second stage, because you know you are
able to do this skill well. That’s when you have a major breakthrough.

May these quotes inspire you to take risks in life so that you may be the person you truly want to
be.

GENERAL Risk-Taking Quotes

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
― Neil Gaiman, ​The Graveyard Book

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
— Goethe

It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture
that they are difficult. — Seneca

“Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.” — Jimmy Carter

Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting. — Karl Wallenda

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough. — Mario Andretti

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to
risk his life in a great cause. – Theodore Roosevelt

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

Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any
experience that reveals the human spirit. – E. E. Cummings

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. – Chuck Palahniuk
Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
— David Lloyd George

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. — William James

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go.
— T.S. Eliot

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
– John Paul Jones

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go
together. – Earl Nightingale

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

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
– Jim Carrey

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than
to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus

If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d
never go into business because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump
off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. – Annie Dillard

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, ​Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
with Annotations - 1841-1844

Never give up.

It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last
gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths,
continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever
give up. ― Richelle E. Goodrich, ​Smile Anyway

Follow your star, it's never too late, even if it doesn't quite happen as you expect.
― Jemima Pett

Live for each second without hesitation. ― Elton John

I don't want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season, or burnout like the sun at the and of
the day. I cannot live like the gardener, the cook and water-carrier, doing the same task
everyday of my life... I want to be either somebody or nobody. I don't want to be anybody.
― Ruskin Bond, ​The Room on the Roof
When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire.
― Richelle E. Goodrich, ​Slaying Dragons

Do one thing every day that scares you. — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Do not fear mistakes. There are none. — Miles Davis

A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with
what he has done. — Cardinal Newman

Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
— Rear Admiral Grace Hopper

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Remember, a dead fish can float down a stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. —
W.C. Fields

You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the
necessary job from getting done. – Chuck Yeager

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a
man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

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 idea, to take a calculated risk, and to act.
– Maxwell Maltz

There can be no vulnerability without risk. There can be no community without vulnerability.
There can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. – M. Scott Peck

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.You can’t
get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What
you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself. – Alan Alda
Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is
to be honest with ourselves. – Walter Anderson

What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would
like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting
a better one two years later. – Jonathan Kozol

The refusal to rest content—the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one’s obsessions—is
what distinguishes artists from entertainers and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf
of us all. – John Updike

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you’re losing interest then by scaring
yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it’ll wake them up. – Leo Kottke

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s
the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears
and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead! – General George S. Patton

You’ve got to keep fighting; you’ve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
– Elia Kazan

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can
be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals,
you don’t branch out, you don’t try, you don’t take the risk. – Rosalynn Carter

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk
making a fool of himself. – J. B. Priestley

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive—the risk to
be alive and express what we really are. – Miguel Angel Ruiz

If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk.
But so far there’s been no reason not to try anything. – Kathleen Turner

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.
– Fernando Flores

I’m of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it’s a risk, and I see no reason
to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I’d be foolish to let
something stop me from doing what I love to do. – Thomas Jane

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

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
– Andre Gide
Without struggle, success has no value. ― Aaron Lauritsen

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken,
made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. – Audre Lorde

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. – Maimonides

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who
can consistently laugh at himself does not. – Vaclav Havel

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

Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it
atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. – Roger von Oech

It seems to me that people have vast potential. 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 Adams

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

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

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

– Jim McMahon

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take
risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. – Peter F. Drucker

If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no
good. – Ezra Pound

You must lose a fly to catch a trout. – George Herbert

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks, is worth
whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum. – Sir Walter Scott

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

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you
shall never be so afraid of a tumble. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase; that’s what wild geese are for.
– Henry S. Haskins

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. – Soren Kierkegaard

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
– Cynthia Heimel

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being
laughed at. – Unknown

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. — Sister Elizabeth Kenny

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. – G.K. Chesterton

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for. – John A. Shedd

This nation was built by men who took risks—pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness,
businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers
who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. – Brooks Atkinson

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
– Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really
great make you feel that you, too, can become great. – Mark Twain

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

I guess what I’m trying to say is I don’t think you can measure life in terms of years. I think
longevity doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes
from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you’re not willing to take a
risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead. – Diane Frolov

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

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

adventure wrongly considered. – G. K. Chesterton

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

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible—and
achieve it, generation after generation. – Pearl S. Buck

People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in
order. – Katherine Mansfield

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always
someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to
believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires
some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men
and women to win them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
– Winston Churchill

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. – James B. Conant

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were—to the very last minute—a
chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot. – Ralph Waldo
Emerson

If you never budge, don’t expect a push. – Malcolm S. Forbes

Without the element of uncertainty—the bringing off of even—the greatest triumph would be
dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying. – J. Paul Getty
It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win
anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing,
and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to
be small. By being willing to accept small losses they put themselves in position to make large
gains. – Max Gunther

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too
late. – Marilyn Moats 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

‘How does one become a butterfly?’ she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that
you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. – Trina Paulus

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or
where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually
in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs
and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who
spends himself in a worthy cause. Who—at the best—knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who—at the worst—at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall
never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt

Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who
didn’t are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did. – Lincoln Steffens

If you want to stand out, don’t be different. Be outstanding. – Meredith West

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

Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets? — Tom Peters

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. — General George Patton

I can accept failure. Everybody fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. Fear is an
illusion. — Michael Jordan

Opportunity dances with those on the dance floor. — Anonymous

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take
risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. — Peter Drucker

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast. — Tom Peters

Leap and the net will appear. — Zen Saying

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

Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it. — Chinese proverb

Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. — Samuel
Johnson

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. — Wayne Gretzky

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves. — Andre Gide

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long
time. — Andre Gide

Danger can never be overcome without taking risks.— Latin Proverb

Necessity is the mother of taking chances. — Mark Twain

99 percent of success is built on failure. — Charles Kettering

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

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? — Robert Schuller

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. — John Barrymore

Anything that is successful is a series of mistakes. — Billie Armstrong

Grab it while you can because tomorrow could suck you dry.
― Nora Roberts, The Pagan Stone

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those
dreams a reality. ― Jonas Salk

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the
great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best
know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so
that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor
defeat. ― Theodore Roosevelt
It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.
― Martina Boone, ​Compulsion

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
― Criss Jami, ​Healology

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life
rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.
― Tamera Alexander,​ Within My Heart

You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome
battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt
victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you
have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have
forgotten what you have already achieved.
― Suzy Kassem, ​Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

...maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that
things will stay the same. ― Danny Wallace, ​Yes Man

...If there is no risk, there is no reward.

― Christy Raedeke, ​The Daykeeper's Grimoire

There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again
tomorrow. ― Aaron Lauritsen, ​100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope
someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude
and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. -- Donald Trump

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. – Swami Vivekananda

I don’t believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.
– Guy Laliberte

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. – Muhammad Ali

The most critical risk of all, is not taking the risk if means be dangerous. ― Anthony Liccione

There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
– Drew Barrymore

The reward is in the risk. – Rachel Cohn

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while. – Jean-Paul Sartre
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in
which you first find yourself. – Mark Caine

If fear was a man he would never take risks. ― Fritz Chery

You only do good work when you’re taking risks and pushing yourself. – Sally Hawkins

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. – Sallust

Taking risks gives me energy. – Jay Chiat

The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing. – Robert Kiyosaki

The only certainty in life is that it is uncertain. ― Charles F. Glassman

You can’t be successful in business without taking risks. It’s really that simple.
– Adena Friedman

Because if you’re prepared and you know what it takes, it’s not a risk. You just have to figure out
how to get there. There is always a way to get there. – Mark Cuban

You have to risk falling to be able to fly. ― Debasish Mridha

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid.
Everything else is commentary. ― Iveta Cherneva

Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.
– Jack Canfield

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
– Peter Drucker

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of
comfortable inaction. — John F. Kennedy

Living with fear stops us from taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never
going to get the best fruit. – Sarah Parish

When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth
we’re given. –Barbara Sher

If you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it’s like to win. ― Richard Branson

One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. – George Addair
As we risk ourselves, we grow. Each new experience is a risk. – Fran Watson

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. — Anaïs Nin

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. — Erma Bombeck

Trust the still, small voice that says, ‘this might work and I’ll try it. — Diane Mariechild

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.
— Maya Angelou

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper
tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and
the procedure, the process is its own reward. — Amelia Earhart

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

The only limits in your life are those that you set yourself. — Celestine Chua

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new
you. But other people who do will come along.— Lisa Alther

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

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
— Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

Revolutionaries don't get job security. — Ruby Dee

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a
whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is
either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free
spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. — Helen Keller, ​The Open Door

Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women
must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to
others. — Amelia Earhart

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always
no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more. — Erica Jong
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
— Shirley Hufstedler

If you try to guard yourself against every unlikely danger, you'll never stretch beyond your
comfort zone. Don't let the 'what-ifs' run your life. Follow your dreams and have at it.
— Diane Conway

The human soul has need of security and also of risk. The fear of violence or of hunger or of
any other extreme evil is a sickness of the soul. The boredom produced by a complete absence
of risk is also a sickness of the soul. — Simone Weil

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to
stumble over something. — Gertrude Stein

Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it. — Oprah Winfrey

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that
opens in the snow.— Alice M. Swaim

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should
follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. — Joyce Brothers

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool,
clear water flowing under. — Holly Near

The only real risk is the risk of thinking too small. — Frances Moore Lappe

We tend to be held back from our goals by the simplicity of our comfort zones… but just how
comfortable are we? Wouldn’t we be more content living in our dreams? — Michelle C.
Ustaszeski

Opportunity dances with those on the dance floor.— Anonymous

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. — Geena Davis

You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of
life. Either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don’t play at all.
And if you don’t play you can’t win. — Judith McNaught

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The
only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment.
Own it. — Oprah Winfrey

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
This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's
nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will. ― Lisi Harrison

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.
― Aaron Lauritsen

Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.
- Aaron Lauritsen

Life is sacrifice and risk-taking, and nothing that doesn't entail some moderate amount of the
former, under the constraint of satisfying the latter, is close to what we can call life. If you do not
undertake a risk of real harm, reparable or even potentially irreparable, from an adventure, it is
not an adventure. ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.
― Aaron Lauritsen

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who
swim excellently in calm waters. ― Israelmore Ayivor

If we never take any risks, we’ll never fully experience what life offers to us in its entirety.
― Nina Hrusa

If you didn't take the risk how would you know what is good or bad, if you didn't take it, you will
stay at the same point ― Nourhan Mamdouh

Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go,
to learn about the stuff we are made of. ― Tania Aebi

Freedom is always associated with risk-taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it.
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Risks may make you win, or they will make you learn. Either of the benefits is worth dying for.
― Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t be too scared to calculate risks ― Sunday Adelaja

Everything is a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you. ― Nicola Yoon

And I'll tell you a secret. We're all afraid of failing. We're all scared of adventure.
― Mary Ann Marlowe

If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch
no fish.
― Israelmore Ayivor
People regret not achieving enough success in life, they should regret missing many
opportunities in life. ― Amit Kalantri

If you’re not scared a lot you’re not doing very much. -Robin Sharma

Sometimes, the biggest risks are those we take with our hearts. - Anonymous

If you want it, go for it. Take a risk. Don’t always play it safe or you’ll die wondering.
- Anonymous

Take every risk, drop every fear. - Anonymous

To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks. - Anonymous

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn

If it’s still in your mind, it is worth taking the risk. - Anonymous

Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. - Anonymous

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because it’s safe or certain.- Anonymous

I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing
to take. The world rewards the risk-takers. It always has. It always will. - Dan Pearce

Ignore the risk, and take the fall. If it’s meant to be, it’s worth it all. - Anonymous

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. - Paulo Coelho

If you don’t take risks, you’ll never know. Anonymous

Creative risk-taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high.
- Gary Ryan Blair

Take the risk or lose the chance. - Anonymous

When we stop taking risks, we stop living life. - Robin Sharma

If there’s even a slight chance at getting something that will make you happy, risk it.
- A. R. Lucas

Great love and great achievements involve great risks. - Dalai Lama

Find your dream, then risk everything to make it into a reality. - Anonymous

The person who does nothing does nothing. - Anonymous

Creativity is the ability to take risks. - Jim Kast-Keat

To love is to risk. Therefore, to love is to be brave. -Anonymous

Life is all about taking risks. If you never take a risk, you will never achieve your dreams.
- Anonymous

There can be no great accomplishment without risk. - Neil Armstrong

Sometimes life is about risking everything for a dream no one can see but you. -Anonymous

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the
unexpected to happen. - Paulo Coelho

It’s better to cross the line and suffer the consequences than to just stare at the line for the rest
of your life. - Anonymous

THE PENALTY OF NOT TAKING THE CHANCE

“In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that,
and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as
it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere
between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my
youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had
wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.
― Julian Barnes, ​The Sense of an Ending

NOT WORRYING ABOUT WHAT OTHERS THINK

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
— Billy Wilder

So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but
when his ambition is realized, the world will praise him for the persistence and the determination
that he manifested during his dark hours, and everybody will point to his life as an example for
coming generations. This is invariably the rule. Therefore pay no attention to what the world
says when you are down. Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view,
and you will.
― Christian D. Larson
Mitch Ditkoff has taken several risks in his life. He once accepted a job as a cook in a
restaurant with absolutely no experience. He started a successful innovation consultancy with a
single idea, one friend, and no money. He got married to a woman who could see through him,
started a business blues band that CNN ended up doing a feature story on, lived in an ashram
for five years, and has spoken before audiences of up to 10,000 people.

FINDING YOUR SOULMATE

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually
get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become
soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
― Criss Jami,​ Venus in Arms

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if
I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now,
something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of
who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want
now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set
to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us.
― Kazuo Ishiguro, ​When We Were Orphans

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals, sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . .
.― Nick Cave

AMBITION

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has
been growing steadily ever since. ― Salvador Dali

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night — there must be thousands of girls sitting
alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm
dreaming the hardest. ― Marilyn Monroe

“Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be
any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see
another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.”
― L. M. Montgomery, ​Anne of Green Gables
MEN
Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they
perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a
discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.
― Criss Jami, ​Killosophy

FEMINISM
We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have
ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise,
you would threaten the man. Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am
expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.
Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to
aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same? We raise girls to see each other as
competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the
attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. ―
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, ​We Should All Be Feminists

NATURE & WILDLIFE

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles
circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird
vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and
Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built;
they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be
conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of
California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric
landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the
circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during
your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't
blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety.
There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family
vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it,
and you will be happy.― Christopher Isherwood, ​Exhumations

WITH WHOM SHOULD YOU SURROUND YOURSELF

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your
ambitions, and bring out the best in you. ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Surround Yourself with Positive People Who Believe in Your Dreams. Distance yourself from
negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for
positive people to come into your life.Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your
dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
― Roy T. Bennett, ​The Light in the Heart
Depending on Others/ Worrying About What Other Think

What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval? I'm someone. I approve. So I give
myself permission to move forward with my full support!
― Richelle E. Goodrich,​ Smile Anyway

Don’t listen to those who say ‘you taking too big a chance.’ Michelangelo would have painted
the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don’t listen when
the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says ‘they all smarter than you out
there. They’re more talented, they’re taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have
connections.” I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of
love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can
move others by your own efforts—and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you
live—the chances are you’ll be a person worthy of your own respects. – Neil Simon

RELIGIOUS/SPIRITUAL

“The truest of all truths is this: You are a child of God. Out of more than six billion people on
earth now, He knows your name, what you fear and what you revere. He cares about the things
you care about. He wants your happiness and success, and will reach to the farthest corner of
the universe to see that you obtain your noblest dreams.” ― Toni Sorenson

FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN

People need not fear the unknown if they have a capable of achieving what they need and what
― Paulo Coelho

FUNNY
“This is the age of the specialist, and years ago Rollo had settled on his career. Even as a boy,
hardly capable of connected thought, he had been convinced that his speciality, the one thing
he could do really well, was to inherit money.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, ​The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

The luckiest people and businesses are those that are prepared to take the greatest risks. We
can all create our own luck by taking the necessary risks to open the door to change,
progression and success. - Richard Branson

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only
strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.– Mark Zuckerberg

If you don’t play you can’t win.– Judith McNaught

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? – Frank Scully
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. – William G.T. Shedd

There is freedom waiting for you,

On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask 'What if I fall?'
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?
– Erin Hanson

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso

Conclusion

As the saying goes, “Fortune favors the brave.” We hope you enjoyed these quotes about taking
risks. Taking risks is how you grow and expand. It is how you become better at what you do and
live the large life you’re destined and want to have.

To achieve anything worthwhile in life, you need to step outside your safe zone. You must
embrace some level of discomfort if you want to be as big and successful as you can possibly
imagine. You must possess and exercise courage despite the fear or discomfort.

Hopefully, these quotes have inspired you to take the necessary risks to live the life you dream
of. Go for it and let your inner lion out.
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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/risk-taking
https://riskology.co/99-risk-quotes/
https://everydaypower.com/quotes-about-taking-risks/
https://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/my-top-10-quotes-risk
https://awakenthegreatnesswithin.com/35-inspirational-quotes-on-risks/
https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/taking_risks
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