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Quotes About Risk

We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
~ Luc de Clapiers
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
~ Mark Twain
The heart is a tender but hardy organ. Daring to have a wonderful experience, even though you may get hurt, is the only way you'll realize its deepest desires.
~ Martha Beck
When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.
~ Moby
I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.
~ Moby
As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.
~ Mpho Koaho
The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.
~ John Templeton
You can't fly if you don't get the courage to grow your wings.
~ Mya Waechtler
Three, two, one, and f*ck it!
~ Unknown
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
~ Octavio Paz
It is better to make a mistake than to do nothing.
~ Adolf Hitler
Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing
~ Soichiro Honda
Failure is built into creativity... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.
~ Saul Bass
If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
~ Ferdinand Porsche
If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Don't be afraid of failure, be afraid of not trying in the first place.
~ Marie Forleo
Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.
~ J. K. Rowling
Most innovations fail. And companies that don't innovate die.
~ Unknown
Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.
~ Brad Feld
People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.
~ Bruce Schneier
There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.
~ Richard Marcinko
We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.
~ Gene Kranz
The only real failure is the failure to try.
~ Judi Dench
I MUST go to what desperately frightens me - the chance of failure.
~ Sally Field