Quotes About Risk

He who forecasts all perils will never sail the sea.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of shore for a very long time.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

The biggest quality in successful people I think is an impatience with negative thinking. ... How many opportunities come along? If you wait for the right one, that's wrong, because it may never be right, and what have you got to lose? Even if it's a disaster, you've tried, you've learned something, you've had an adventure. And that doesn't mean you can't do it again.

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

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.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail.

Many a man never fails because he never tries.