20 QUOTES ABOUT RISK THAT WILL INSPIRE YOU

Posted on 19/07/2014

Throughout the ages, many have tried to put into words exactly what risk is and what it means to them. Some have been more successful than others. Today, I want to share with you 20 quotes that have had great impact on me and how I think about the concept of risk. I’m a big fan of quotes because they have the greatest signal to noise ratio of nearly any communication.  I hope they have as profound an effect on you as they have on me. Enjoy!!!

1. The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead. – Albert Einstein

2. No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause. – Theodore Roosevelt

3. Only those who will risk going too far, can possibly find out how far one can go. – T. S. Eliot

4. If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn

5. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. – Earl Nightingale

6. Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. – Denis Waitley

7. It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left? – Jim Carrey

8. Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. – Paul Tillich

9. The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. – Maimonides

10. You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. – Chuck Yeager

11. Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. – Vaclav Havel

12. 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. – Maxwell Maltz

13. To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille

14. When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given. – Barbara Sher

15. Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. – Roger von Oech

16. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. – Leo F. Buscaglia

17. 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

18. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for. – John A. Shedd

19. This nation was built by men who took risks—pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. – Brooks Atkinson

20. Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. –Cadet Maxim

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