Risk And Failure Quotes:

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: People, Risk, Risk And Failure

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

- Gary Blair

source: "Finding Your J Spot: Joy in Midlife and Beyond". Book by Peter Brill and David Debin, 2006.

topic: Opportunity, Risk, Caution, Taking Risks, Prompts

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

- Andre Gide

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Taking Risks, Newness

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Scribbles, Mind Heart

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

- Jim McMahon

topic: Risk, Would Be, Sure Thing, Chance And Risk, Risking Your Life

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

- Michael Jordan

source: "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

topic: Motivational, Change, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Young Entrepreneurs

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

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Success, Failure, Journey To Success, Inspirational Achievement

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

topic: Risk, Doing Nothing, Cost, Risking Your Life, Learning Lessons

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

- Leo Buscaglia

source: LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

topic: Life, Love Is, Deep Love, Love Is Life, Risks In Life

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

- Jim Rohn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Pushing On, Taking Risks

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Self Determination, Try Again

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

- Ray Bradbury

topic: Courage, Humor, Greatness, Jumping In, Jumping Off

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Failure In Life, Inspirational Harry Potter

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. 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

source: Rosalynn Carter (2016). “First Lady from Plains”, p.45, University of Arkansas Press

topic: Courage, Women, Failure, Risk And Failure, Risk And Success

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Courage, Inspiration, Adventure, Experiencing Things, Fearlessness

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

- Pierre Corneille

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Taking Risks, Inspirational Runner

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Life, Confidence, Believe, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Live For Yourself, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them

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

source: "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

topic: Inspirational, Success, Two, Discovering Yourself, Innovation And Business

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

- William Faulkner

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Funny Courage, Risk And Failure

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

- Walter Inglis Anderson

topic: Chance, Take A Chance, Chance And Risk, Risks In Life, Risk And Failure

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

- Jack Canfield

source: Twitter post from Oct 08, 2015

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspiration And Life, Inspirational Success Failure

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

- Arianna Huffington

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Opposites, Powerful Women, Successful Women, Business Woman, Overcoming Failure

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Pay, Fear Of Failure, Heavy, Success Failure, Failure Motivational

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

- Geena Davis

topic: Risk, Risking Your Life, Risk And Failure, Risking Your Heart

In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

- John Spence

topic: Thinking, Risk, Things Change, You Don't Love Me, Bridal Shower

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Powerful, Failure, Personality, Failure Motivational, No Failure

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

- Lupita Nyong'o

topic: Badass, Women, Risk, Risk And Failure, Life Goes On

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Life, Motivational, Fear, Risking Your Life, Risks In Life

It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

topic: Men, Arena, Credit, Strong Man, Putting Yourself Out There

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

- Paul Tillich

topic: Failure, Design, Risk, Risk And Failure

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

- Katherine Mansfield

source: Journal, 10 Oct. 1922

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Wisdom, Chance And Risk, Facing The Truth

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

- Andre Malraux

source: Vince Lombardi (2012). “What it Takes to be Number One”, p.71, Thomas Nelson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Successful Person, Cybernetics

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

- Erica Jong

source: Erica Jong (2007). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, p.90, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, You Don't Love Me, Long Relationship

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

- Joyce Brothers

topic: Witty, Hurt, Simple, Risking Your Life, Risks In Life

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

- Maimonides

topic: Self Esteem, Decision, Risk, Taking Risks, Indecisive

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Happiness, Bad Day, Cutting, Taking Risks, Invisible Monsters

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

source: Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.142, Jean Jacques Rousseau

topic: Suicide, Men, Fire, Risking Your Life, Risk And Failure

Risk more than others think safe.

- Howard Schultz

source: Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

topic: Thinking, Risk, Safe, Inspirational Service, Customer Loyalty

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Success, Christian, Ideas, Taking Risks, Successful Person

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

- Katherine Mansfield

topic: Earth, Hardest, Taking Risks, Daring To Be Great, Chance And Risk

He who will not risk cannot win.

- John Paul Jones

topic: Winning, Risk, Inexorable, Taking Risks, Risk And Failure

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

- Mark Zuckerberg

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Morning, Risk, Young Entrepreneurs, Successful Entrepreneurs, Chance And Risk

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance, Moral Failure, Risks In Life

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Life, Positive, Happiness, Self Determination, Fear None

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

- Bill Cosby

source: Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Change, Improving Yourself