Quotes About Risk-taking

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

If you don't do what Fear says...you'll go ahead and speak up, you'll sign up, you'll buy, you'll sell, you'll jump.

Overcoming fear and conceiving this 'art of more' should be a fundamental practice in what it is that you do and make.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

Fear is for people who don't get out very much.

Don't wait until you're not afraid of something to do it. Do it despite the fear and you'll start to develop a 'fearlessness muscle'.

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

What ever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.

Never be afraid to try something new because life gets boring when you stay within the limits of what you already knew.

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college. What am I still doing here?!

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

Life is too short not to experiment.

Stop swallowing your words, stop caring what others think. Stop waiting for the weekend, live now. Take risks.

Forbes did, in fact, break new ground for women...She was an irrepressible and independent traveler who took risky and difficult trips, braved the hostility of the colonial officials and bureaucrats of the British empire, and invaded the male sphere of exploration, using charm, chutzpah--and her extensive network of establishment connections--to get where she wanted to go. (From the Sahara to Samarkand: Selected Travel Writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937)

For me, literature is a revolutionary force, it requires courage and risk-taking, it must have the ability to thrust you out of your comfort zone, take you on a dangerous journey, a journey into the unknown, and then bring you back to the centre of yourself.

Behavioral psychologists class intuitive thinkers as creative, alert, confident, informal, spontaneous and independent. Such people are not afraid of their experiences and are open to new challenges. They can live with doubt and uncertainty. This is also a comprehensive profile of extreme risk-takers, in both business and adventure.

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.

Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you.