Risk And Success Quotes:

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

- William Jennings Bryan

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Confidence, Improve Self Esteem, Taking Risks

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

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost

source: "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Success, Different Roads, Journey And Destination

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

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

- Seneca the Younger

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Dare, Inspirational Attitude, Inspirational Courage

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

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

topic: Inspirational, Positive, New Year, Really Scary, Trying Something New

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Makin Money, Market Risk

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

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

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

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

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Life, Business, War, Best Investment, Market Risk

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

If you don't build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.

- Dhirubhai Ambani

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Inspiring Business, Tycoons

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

- William Arthur Ward

source: William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

topic: Dream, Pain, Taken, Life Philosophy, Rock Climbing

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

- Rosalyn Drexler

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Chance And Risk, Risking Your Life

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

The best revenge is the massive success.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Pursue Your Dreams, Source Of Life, Innovation Inspiration, Inspirational Achievement, Inspirational And Innovation

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Motivational, Success, Congratulations, Inspirational Goal, Taking Risks

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

- Maimonides

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

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

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

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

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

topic: Running, Courage, Famous Inspirational, Fear None, Courage To Change

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

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

- Warren Buffett

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Young Entrepreneurs, Makin Money

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

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

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Success, Baseball, Crazy, Softball Team, Inspirational Baseball

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Top Management, Marketing And Sales

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

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

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

- Wayne Gretzky

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

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Planting Seeds

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Overwhelming Odds, Mountain Climbing

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

- John Paul Jones

topic: Winning, Law, Risk, Taking Risks, Inexorable

He who will not risk cannot win.

- John Paul Jones

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

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

- Victor Kiam

topic: Success, Stress, Entrepreneur, Risk And Success

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