If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. Arthur Koestler

• courage
• risk

This country [America] was not built by men who relied on somebody else to take care of them. It was built by men who relied on themselves, who dared to shape their own lives, who had enough courage to blaze new trails - enough confidence in themselves to take the necessary risks. J. Ollie Edmunds

• confidence
• Americans
• America
• independence
• risk
• self reliance
• initiative
• chance

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George

• fear
• risk

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. Grace Hopper

• risk

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain

• risk
• chance

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide

• risk
• chance

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well-being, to risk his life, in a great cause. Theodore Roosevelt

• courage
• bravery
• fear
• risk

Who dares nothing need hope for nothing. Friedrich von Schiller

• risk
• chance

The greatest risk in life is to wait for and depend upon others for your own security. Denis Waitley

• security
• risk
• self reliance
• initiative

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

• risk

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

• self improvement
• risk

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Brian Tracy

• luck
• fortune
• risk
• chance

The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. Dale Carnegie

• risk
• chance

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers. Brian Tracy

• risk

Most people wait until everything is just right before they do anything. They refuse to go out on a limb where the fruit is. They refuse to bet on themselves. Zig Ziglar

• risk
• initiative
• chance

Those who wait until all the lights are on green before starting will never leave home. Zig Ziglar

• risk
• initiative
• chance

Procrastination in the name of reducing risk actually increases risk. Colin Powell

• risk
• decisiveness
• procrastination

You should never share your goals with anyone unless you know they not only believe you can reach the goals but they want you to reach them. Others decide not to commit their goals to paper so if they don't quite "make it," they will have the built-in explanation that they didn't really fail because they never set those goals. This is a safer and even a "no risk" approach for them that guarantees they will not reach a fraction of their potential. Zig Ziglar

• goals
• risk
• associates

If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top. Zig Ziglar

• risk
• initiative

Too much caution is bad for you. It is usually wiser to stand up to a scary-seeming experience and walk right into it, risking the bruises or hard knocks. You are likely to find it is not as tough as you had thought. Or you may find it plenty tough, but also discover you have what it takes to handle it. Norman Vincent Peale

• courage
• risk

Doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without immediate risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business. Thomas Watson Jr.

• risk
• initiative

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

• action
• risk

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing. Napoleon Hill

• risk
• chance

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. Napoleon Hill

• criticism
• risk
• chance

And I honor the man who is willing to sink

Half his present repute for the freedom to think,

And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,

Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak. James Russell Lowell

• reputation
• freedom
• free speech
• risk

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Herodotus

• risk

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

• risk
• judgment

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. Peter Drucker

• courage
• business
• risk

To accomplish a great task, you must step out in faith and have complete confidence that your next step will soon become clear to you. Brian Tracy

• confidence
• risk
• faith

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer. Niccolò Machiavelli

• ambition
• risk
• decisiveness

If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. Julia Sorel

• fear
• risk
• chance

Over the years, a number of very smart people have learned the hard way that a long string of impressive numbers multiplied by a single zero always equals zero. Warren Buffett

• investing
• risk

If you're taking risks, and you probably should, you can find yourself failing 90% of the time. The trick is to get paid while you're doing the failing and to use the experience to gain skills that will be useful later. Scott Adams

• failure
• risk

Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy. Bill Walsh

• football
• risk
• coaching

This is the source.

If I have ventured wrongly, very well, life then helps me with its penalty. But if I haven't ventured at all, who helps me then? Soren Kierkegaard

• risk
• mistakes
• chance

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all. Charles Lindbergh

• risk
• chance

Risk means more things can happen than will happen. Elroy Dimson

• investing
• risk

We feel invigorated and excited when we work to optimize our future performance, while playing in the present. Otherwise we lumber around, sloth-like, unconscious, unformed and careless. Overprotected, we will fail when something dangerous, unexpected and full of opportunity suddenly makes its appearance. Jordan Peterson

• self improvement
• risk

Risk is primarily the likelihood of permanent capital loss. But there's also such a thing as opportunity risk: the likelihood of missing out on potential gains. Howard Marks

• investing
• risk