Quotes About Risk-taking

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and too prudent.

Our world expands or shrinks in direct proportion to our courage,

To see and hear what is here, instead of what should be, was, or will be. To say what I feel and think instead of what I should. To feel what I feel instead of what I ought. To ask for what I want instead of always waiting for permission. To take risks on my behalf, instead of choosing to be safe and not rock the boat.

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.

When you're not afraid to fail, you'll most certainly have the confidence to succeed.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.

Taking delight in the journey takes confidence. It pushes the envelope of design.

Learn to be brave and adventurous because you'll never discover your place in the world, if you're too afraid to leave your own backyard.

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

The only things those people have that you don't is guts. Do you wanna live forever?

With audacity one can undertake anything.

Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin

Perhaps the current state of my health should have raised a bright red caution flag, but instead it fired me up. I wanted to do what I wanted. I didn't care if hefting plywood and climbing ladders weren't on my doctor's recommended list of activities, or if I was foolhardy to think I could lift a fifty-pound roll of tar paper into and then out of my car. I was going to do it because it sounded like a blast, like the best possible way to have fun.

If something's dope, you got to go with it.