“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.”
Jim McMahon
“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.”
Paul Tillich
“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
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Andre Gide
“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