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Quotes About Risk

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.
~ Meg Cabot
It's important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.
~ Nicole Scherzinger
Be bold - and mighty forces will come to your aid.
~ Basil King
You can always die. It's living that takes real courage." - Himura Kenshin
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
You need the courage to seem foolish and to fail.
~ Unknown
I was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.
~ Elsie de Wolfe
You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.
~ Jack Campbell, Relentless
As to hanging, it is no great hardship. For were it not for that, every cowardly fellow would turn pirate and so unfit the sea, that men of courage must starve.
~ Anne Bonny
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
~ Gail Sheehy
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
~ Anne Bronte
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
It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.
~ Mary Daly
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
~ Charlie Chaplin
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
~ Maya Angelou
Fortune befriends the bold.
~ John Dryden
Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
~ Publilius Syrus
Life is to be entered upon with courage.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
~ Unknown
A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.
~ Andy Stanley
True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.
~ L. Frank Baum
Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
~ David Lloyd George
War is fear cloaked in courage.
~ Unknown
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?
~ Logan Pearsall Smith