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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
George S. Patton
"As we risk ourselves, we grow. Each new experience is a risk."
Fran Watson
"Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise."
Author Unknown
"If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room."
Jayne Howard
"It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever."
Philip Adams
"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
Katherine Mansfield
"To eat an egg, you must break the shell."
Proverb
"If you don't risk anything you risk even more."
Erica Jong
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is."
H. Jackson Browne
"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."
Jawaharlal Nehru
"Life is a risk."
Diane Von Furstenberg
"To win you have to risk loss."
Jean-Claude Killy
"I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go."
Lillian Carter
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."
Herodotus
"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances."
Julia Sorel
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
Joaquin Setanti
"There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community."
M. Scott Peck
"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
Pierre Corneille
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
Anais Nin
"Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it "
Proverb
"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
Walter Anderson
"What you risk reveals what you value."
Jeanette Winterson
"The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith."
George E. Woodberry
"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
Strom Jameson
"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."
Frederick B. Wilcox
"Often, people stay in jobs that they despise rather than taking a risk by changing their work to an area that they love. Sometimes, we fall into the trap of thinking we are secure in our positions, and believe it is better to remain where we are rather than change jobs."
Catherine Pulsifer,
"It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question."
Magdalena Abakanowicz
"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks."
Helmuth von Moltke
"One must pick and choose one's battles in life or risk living in many emotional foxholes."
Donald S. Neviaser
"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
J Danforth Quayle
"If you check under your hood every few thousand miles, you will greatly reduce the risk of breaking down in a bad neighborhood.
Michelle C. Ustaszeski
"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity."
Douglas MacArthur
"He who doesn't risk never gets to drink champagne."
Russian Proverb
"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky
"A good coach encourages the same type of resilience in the people they work with. They encourage them to take risks. If the risk results in failure, they help all people to learn from the mistake and then go on to try another way."
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer,
"A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change."
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and act."
Maxwell Maltz
"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold."
George Bernard Shaw
"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"
Robert H. Schuller
"It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all."
Edward de Bono
"Taking risks, making mistakes, and learning from all experiences show the capacity for being human."
Steve Brunkhorst
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
James Bryant Conant
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
Seneca
"The first step in the risk management process is to acknowledge the reality of risk. Denial is a common tactic that substitutes deliberate ignorance for thoughtful planning."
Charles Tremper
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
T.S. Elliot
"In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving."
Author Unknown
"It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually."
Abraham Maslow
"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf."
Shakti Gawain
"Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart."
Paulo Coelho
"To assure that you will never experience failure:
· don't take a risk,
· don't attempt anything new,
· don't expand on your ideas,
· don't set goals.
Never to do any of these things actually guarantees you will fail.
Catherine Pulsifer,
"I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk."
Oprah Winfrey
"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these - that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."
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