Risk Taking Quotes

Safety is an illusion and perhaps it's better to challenge it sometimes, to see how far we can go, to learn about the stuff we are made of.

What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?

The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Joining a gang is like sky diving without a parachute. Oh, at first it’s all fun, as you take on gravity in a thrilling and exhilarating free fall towards earth. The truth is, anything that is risky and dangerous always starts out as fun. But the odds are always stacked in gravity’s favor, for you will eventually come face to face with the earth, and mother earth always wins those battles. The same thing can be said about being in a gang.

There is an economy in your mind

CRITICISM is part of LEARNING and GROWTH. It means that you are taking INITIATIVES to learn something new and grow over from your current state. If you are not getting criticised, it means you are not taking enough RISK to learn something new and to grow.

Sanjeev Himachali

The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

Carla H. Krueger

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Susan Oakey-Baker

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.

Earl Nightingale

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

Nick Cave

Risk the risks.

The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change.

Rik Leaf

Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.

What I'm getting at here is that you can be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.

Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.

Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn't about getting stuff or attaining something. It's about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him. He is our dream come true, and the one true love of our life. But we can't love him with our whole hearts when our hearts are asleep. To love Jesus means to risk coming awake, to risk wanting and desiring.

Those who dare take risks shall fulfill their passions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Where there is a risk, there is a wealth.

Auliq-Ice

It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

Risk is the unique path to success.

Adria J. Cimino

Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime ‘let out all the length of the reins.

Mary Cholmondeley

An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents’ and his grandparents’ generation have got through molding it. We can’t help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you:Remember we really don’t know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don’t know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.

Lincoln Steffens

No struggle, no success! The strongest thunder strikes often bring the heaviest rainfall! The weight of your fulfillment depends on how wide you cast your nets!

Israelmore Ayivor

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

Tamera Alexander

Those do dare take risks, shall fulfill their passions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.

great men take and overtake risk tactically

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Opportunity and risk come in pairs

Bangambiki Habyarimana

People regret not achieving enough success in life, they should regret missing many opportunities in life.

Work hard and take risks. Try it before you confirm it is difficult!

Israelmore Ayivor

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

Teresa R. Funke

The desire to swim in deeper waters is what gives a greater experience. Nothing new comes out of being ordinary. Leaders take risks.

Israelmore Ayivor

Leaders do what is uncomfortable but helpful. They run away from the comfort that doesn't produce any help for the world.

Israelmore Ayivor

Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

Richard Brookhiser

People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.

Israelmore Ayivor

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn't want to joke around with you anymore, because she doesn't want to seem flirty, because she doesn't want you to think she likes you. It’s such a disaster, whenever, in the course of human relationships, someone begins to chisel away at the wall of separation between friendship and kissing. Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle— oh, look, we broke down this wall, I’m going to look at you like a girl and you’re going to look at me like a boy and we’re going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There. And sometimes that happy middle looks so great that you can convince yourself that it’s not the middle but will last forever.

We avoid risks in life only to die, and end up facing the greatest risk which is having lived life risking nothing at all.

Chinonye J. Chidolue

Don’t be too scared to calculate risks

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

When you compete, you gain more than you lose, even when you lose.

Aaron Lauritsen

The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Risks may make you win, or they will make you learn. Either of the benefits is worth daring for.

Israelmore Ayivor

To become a better you, dare to take calculated risks and overcome your limitations. Your scars can make you a star, but you have to decide.

Israelmore Ayivor

If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish.

Israelmore Ayivor

To become a better you, hurry up and take risks.

Israelmore Ayivor

You were born a winner, a warrior, one who defied the odds by surviving the most gruesome battle of them all - the race to the egg. And now that you are a giant, why do you even doubt victory against smaller numbers and wider margins? The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

...If there is no risk, there is no reward.

Christy Raedeke

Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way

Aaron Lauritsen

There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.

Aaron Lauritsen

Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.

Aaron Lauritsen

The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.

Aaron Lauritsen

At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.

Aaron Lauritsen

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