(45 quotes found)
“If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good”
Ezra Pound
“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.”
William James
“You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on.”
Ray Bradbury
“No noble thing can be done without risks”
Michel de Montaigne
“Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.”
R. D. Laing
“Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work.”
John William Ward
“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
“The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side would rather avoid danger than accept an immediate loss.”
Thucydides
“Being born is certain, Death will come, But whats in between is the adventure, It starts when you take the risk.”
kristina murphy
“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.”
Win Borden