Skip to main content

Risk Quotes

80 Total

Note: Click on any quote to see the quote on its own page.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.

The country needs bold persistent experimentation. Take a method and try it; it if fails, admit it, and try another. But above all, try something.

– Franklin D. Roosevelt

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

– Paul Newman

Take risks. You can’t fall off the bottom.

Some days you’re the bug. Some days you’re the windshield.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

– Thomas J. Watson

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

– Helen Keller

Run the risk of being successful.

– Ronald Riggs

Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.

– Tim Timmons

Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time keep one foot on the ground.

– Marcel Proust

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hook be ever hanging ready, the fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

– Robert F. Kennedy

On the beaches of hesitation lie the bleached bones of millions, who at the moment of victory, rested and in resting, lost all.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

– John Roger & Peter McWilliams

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark; Professionals built the Titanic.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

Life is a risk. If we measure every step by fearing all the possible ways people might misinterpret what we’re doing, we’d do nothing.

– Bernard Law

Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

– Walt Disney

If you don’t fail now and again, it’s a sign you’re playing it safe.

– Woody Allen

If you are looking for perfect safety, you will do well to sit on a fence and watch the birds; but if you wish to learn to fly you must mount a machine and become acquainted with its tricks by trial.

– Wilbur Wright

If things seem really under control, you’re not going fast enough.

– Mario Andretti

I seldom saw an opportunity until it had ceased to be.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

– James A. Worsham

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.

– Thomas Edison

Every time we’ve moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

– Thomas J. Watson

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Don’t wait for your ship to come in … swim out to it.

1
2
3