“It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.”

William James

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”

Mark Zuckerberg

“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

Helen Keller

“Leap, and the net will appear.”

John Burroughs

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”

Søren Kierkegaard

“I don’t believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.”

Guy Laliberte

“People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.”

Peter Drucker

“The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.”

Goethe

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.”

Robert Kiyosaki

“Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it.“

Nassim Taleb

“It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”

Seneca

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

Wayne Gretzky

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go.”

T.S. Eliot

“The reward is in the risk.”

Rachel Cohn

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”

General George Patton

“Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.”

Jimmy Carter 

“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”

John Paul Jones

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Mark Twain

“Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?”

Tom Peters

“Necessity is the mother of taking chances.”

Mark Twain

“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.”

Geena Davis

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”

Neil Gaiman

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

Muhammad Ali

“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.”

John F. Kennedy

“If you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it’s like to win.”

Richard Branson

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“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

“Trust the still, small voice that says, ‘this might work and I’ll try it.’”

Diane Mariechild

“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity, is daring to dare.”

Maya Angelou