“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
~Anais Nin
“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
~Andre Gide
“You won’t skid if you stay in a rut.”
~Kin Hubbard
“People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
~Winston Churchill
“The biggest risk in life is to risk nothing at all”
~Anonymous
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.”
~ William Shedd
“Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.”
~Samuel Johnson
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.”
~Herodotus
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain
“To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.”
~Isaac Asimov
“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
“To eat an egg, you must break the shell.”
~Jamaican Proverb
“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
~Strom Jameson
“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”
~George S. Patton
“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
~Pierre Corneille
“You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
~Wayne Gretzky
“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”
~ Frederick Smith
“If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.”
~Erica Jong
“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