(45 quotes found)
“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
“Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.”
Jim McMahon
“If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged”
Virginia Woolf
“Where there is no difficulty there is no praise”
Samuel Johnson
“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
“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
“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
