Quotes on Taking Risk

Because we all need to be inspired to overcome our fears and take risks, I've included a post of great quotes on taking risks I hope will inspire you to take more of your own:

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
- Seneca

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
- Unknown

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base.
- Frederick Wilcox

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take chances.
- Julia Soul, Actress

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.
- Tim McMahon

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller, 1880-1968, Blind/Deaf Author and Lecturer

A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for.
- Anonymous

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
– Peter Drucker

Observe the turtle, who only makes progress when his neck is out.
- Unknown

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
- Robert Fritz

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 to act.
- Dr. Maxwell Maltz, Author of "Psycho-Cybernetics"

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
- Robert Anthony

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.
– Wayne Gretzky

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
- Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

To play it safe is not to play.
- Robert Altman, Filmmaker

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.
- Tim McMahon

Care more than others think is wise
Risk more than others think is safe
Dream more than others think is practical
Expect more than others think is possible.
- Cadet Maxim or Claude Thomas Bissell