Risk Taking Quotes

“You can cross a river by swimming but it’s good to learn how to swim before you jump in the river.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“You need to be a risk-taker, but you have to also make sure that you are a calculated risk-taker.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“You either accept the risk of winning, or the guarantee of losing.”
― F.C. Yee, The Shadow of Kyoshi

“Coming so close to death as a young child, only to resurface again into your life, imbued in me for a long time a brand of recklessness, a cavalier or even crazed attitude to risk. It could, I can see, have gone the other way, and made me into a person hindered by fear, hobbled by caution. Instead, I leapt off harbour walls. I walked alone in remote mountains. I took night trains through Europe on my own, arriving in capital cities in the middle of the night with nowhere to stay.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

“Be more curious than cautious. You can't win unless you try to win, but you'd always lose by trying not to lose!”
― Nicky Verd, Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted

“They say you’re always at the place you need to be.
But perhaps it’s not so that we go to stay, but see to leave.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?

“The risks were calculated. The risks were justified.

No one ever ascended a mountain without risk.”
― Liane Moriarty, Nine Perfect Strangers

“Each lifetime had been different, as each choice is always different, unpredictable in its outcome or effect. Yet those choices had to be made, Jeff thought. He'd learned to accept the potential losses, in the hope that they would be outweighed by the gains. The only certain failure, he knew, and the most grievous, would be never to risk at all.”
― Ken Grimwood, Replay

“You can't truly know someone from a distance, January. Every one of us has our own set of secrets and demons and quirks. You just have to decide if it's worth taking the time to learn them. And if you're willing to let someone close enough to learn yours.”
― Tammy L. Gray, Love and a Little White Lie

“In order to become a better innovator, you're going to learn how to write songs.”
― Cliff Goldmacher, The Reason for the Rhymes: Mastering the Seven Essential Skills of Innovation by Learning to Write Songs

“Opportunities pass by frequently, but people don’t always see them. Taking risks grants you an invisible set of glasses that reveal the many opportunities which surround you.”
― Anas Hamshari, Businessman With An Affliction

“..adventures were always best when there was someone to share them with.”
― Chris Colfer, A Grimm Warning

“Financial independence is not about making more money, but using your ability and position to enhance the lives and success of others.”
― John W. Bader jr., Straddling the Abyss: Creating Success Through Perseverance, Timing, and a Little Luck

“Chasing daylight, is in its simplest form “a call for all of us to risk everything for a life of genuine purpose. It is seizing and squeezing the power of every moment in our life.” It is refusing to let life pass us by either by the hour or the day. It is life lived with a restful urgency that has as its mantra, “Hurry up and wait.” It is celebrating and respecting life enough to make a dent on it.”
― Chris J. Gregas

“There is no gain living in the fear of failure but there is lots of reward when you take the risk because even though you fail taking risk, you are never left with a lost hope but with the hope that your next step shall be great. Show me a risk taker an I will tell you whom it is that stays ready for the future.”
― Deborah Nwakwesili.

“You’re gonna miss each and every shot you can’t be bothered to take. That’s not living life, that’s just being a tourist.”
― David Aja, Hawkeye #1

“Safe is prudent, safe is comfortable but progress is propelled by those who are willing to risk it all.”
― Alice Bag

“It was not so much that I didn't value my existence but more that I had an insatiable desire to push myself to embrace all that it could offer. Nearly losing my life at the age of eight made me sanguine - perhaps to a fault - about death. I knew it would happen, at some point, and the idea didn't scare me; its proximity felt instead almost familiar. The knowledge that I was lucky to be alive, that it so easily could have been otherwise, skewed my thinking.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

“Risk is a necessary component of success.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Trying new things, aiming high, and taking bold risks, can lead to failure or success. Putting yourself out there means you might fail miserably or succeed tremendously—or anywhere in between. You don’t get to decide. But you do get to try.”
― Michele Meek, The Mastermind Failure Club: A Self-Empowerment Guide for Artists, Filmmakers, Writers and Other Creative Entrepreneurs

“Fear of failure destroys creativity”
― Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

“Innovate or die, and there's no innovation if you operate out of fear of the new or untested.”
― Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

“Life's an adventure
& If you don't chose adventure path, then you're not living”
― Robert Iger, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

“Own your self worth at any cost.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“[About his pivot from George Washington University to New York University.] Then based solely on Shari's (a friend of a girlfriend) playful provocation, I auditioned for the theater program at NYU. ... This was an idiotic idea, all things considered. When I eventually pitched it to my parents on the phone, my mother shrieked what a mistake I was making. My dad just listened. ... {H]e said to my mother, 'Let's here him out.' I knew something other than money was behind that. Here was a man who had short-circuited his own dreams in order to provide for his family. 'You'll never be young enough to do this again,' he said.”
― Alec Baldwin, Nevertheless

“Grant writing is one part of a fundraising plan that should be analyzed for expected (or planned) benefits or rewards and their associated costs or risks (or actuals).”
― La Juana Chambers Lawson, A Project Manager's Guide to Grant Writing, Vol. I

“Risk stepping into the mess because, more times than not, on the other side of the tension there are new beginnings, strengthened relationships, and the knowledge that conflict is not something to avoid, but a means to a deeper, stronger, and kinder world.”
― Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World

“There are very few aspects of life that do not involve some form of risk, especially since outcomes are never guaranteed.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Some view taking risks as a deterrent. To those people, I say you will never reach your objectives if you are scared to pursue them.”
― Carlos Wallace

“It is in venturing into new territories and soaring new heights that we discover the unknown mysteries of the promised land and treasures hidden in secret places”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua