Quotes About Risk

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Risk something or forever sit with your dreams.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

Your wealth is hiding under the very thing you are afraid to do. It's time to face your fears and take action. Expect Miracles.

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

Time to toss the dice

People need to have 'the dignity of risk' and 'the right to fail'.