Risk Quotes

For us we took a big chance or what some might consider a risk when we made the decision to simplify our life. Did it create stress for us - you bet! But, if we did not attempt to create a simpler life, and, if we continued with the life we were living we felt the risk would have been greater.

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."
Frederick B. Wilcox

"What you risk reveals what you value."
Jeanette Winterson

"When you are faced with risk, uncertainty, and the unpredictable, your ability to deal with it is directly tied to your ability to absorb the consequences. Successful people know that in order to be "choosey" in life, in order to put themselves in a place of control over their lives, in order to make decisions on what they want instead of what they have to do, they must first have reserves."
Kathy Gates

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
Joaquin Setanti

"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
Wayne Gretzky

"It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever."
Philip Adams

"There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
John F. Kennedy

"These questions weighed heavily on my mind, but to simplify my life I had to take a risk….a risk dependent on my own abilities, and my own determination."
Catherine Pulsifer, 30 Months Later, Questions Answered.......

"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf."
Shakti Gawain

"What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"
Robert H. Schuller

"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
Walter Anderson

"A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for."
John A. Shedd

"Risk, you can accomplish whatever your goals are."
Catherine Pulsifer, A New Year

"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."
Ray Bradbury

"Often, people stay in jobs that they despise rather than taking a risk by changing their work to an area that they love."
Catherine Pulsifer, Less Stress by Loving What You Do!

"Life is a risk."
Diane Von Furstenberg

"It's too easy to give in to the 'poor me' syndrome and keep doing what you've always done rather than risk tackling obstacles in your way to a new life."
Byron Pulsifer, from Hidden Enemy

"Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun."
Mary Lou Cook

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
George S. Patton

"When in doubt, risk it."
Holbrook Jackson

"If you don't risk anything you risk even more."
Erica Jong

"If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk."
Rosalynn Carter

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Michelangelo

"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks."
Helmuth von Moltke

"If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks, and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes to learn and win."
John W. Holt, Jr.

"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."
Jawaharlal Nehru

"The thought of risk taking for many is tantamount to accepting the "I can't" syndrome as their main station in life."
Byron Pulsifer, from What Comes After Rainbows?

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity."
Winston Churchill