Quotes About Risk

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

Half the failures in life come from pulling one's horse in when he is leaping.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

The die is cast.

AH the fat's in the fire.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do.

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Better a little fire to warm us than a great one to burn us.

A cheer, then, for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post; And like the lifeboat, proves a friend, When friends are wanted most.

Affinities are rare. They come but a few times in a life. It is awful to risk losing one when it arrives.

There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is to throw them away.

Man is a gaming animal.

Business is more exciting than any game.

In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

If you don't place your foot on the rope, you'll never cross the chasm.

You can't steal second base and keep one foot on first.

Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

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.

Action makes more fortunes than caution.