Quotes on risk
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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André Gide Quotes
If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
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Julia Sorel Quotes
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.
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Author Unknown Quotes
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
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Robert H. Schuller Quotes
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
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Frederick B. Wilcox Quotes
If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
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Woody Allen Quotes
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.
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Cynthia Heimel Quotes
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
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Vauvenargues Quotes
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
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Ray Bradbury Quotes
Of all the people I have ever known, those who have pursued their dreams and failed have lived a much more fulfilling life than those who have put their dreams on a shelf for fear of failure.
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Author Unknown Quotes
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
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Frank Scully Quotes
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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André Gide Quotes
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men 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.
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Brooks Atkinson Quotes
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
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James Bryant Conant Quotes
Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
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Tim McMahon Quotes
To win you have to risk loss.
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Jean-Claude Killy Quotes
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?
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.
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David Grayson Quotes
A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for.
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John A. Shedd Quotes
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.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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James Grover Thurber Quotes
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Quotes
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Wayne Gretzky Quotes
The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.
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Author Unknown Quotes