Risk Quotes

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

• Ernest Hemingway

• Courage, Discipline, Risk, Truth

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

• Muhammad Ali

• Courage, Life, Risk

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• Oceanside, Oregon

I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.

• Michel de Montaigne

• Adversity, Risk, Sacrifice

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• Mono Lake

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

• Jim Rohn

• Risk

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• Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald

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

• Confidence, Risk, Work

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• Yellowstone National Park

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

• William James

• Faith, Risk, Truth

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I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

• Walt Disney

• Action, Belief, Commitment, Dreams, Risk

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• Capital Reef National Park

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

• T. S. Eliot

• Possibility, Risk, Travel

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• Black Sand Beach, Hana, Hawaii, Maui

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

• Samuel Johnson

• Happiness, Risk

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• Sierra Nevada

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Risk, Safety

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• Lake Tahoe

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

• Action, Courage, Life, Risk

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• Oceanside, Oregon

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

• Pierre Corneille

• Risk

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• Yellowstone National Park

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

• Pablo Picasso

• Action, Learning, Possibility, Risk

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• Lake Tahoe

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

• Dreams, Risk, Travel

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If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

• Mario Andretti

• Confidence, Courage, Risk

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• Hawaii, Maui

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

• Lord Chesterfield

• Knowledge, Risk, Travel

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• Yellowstone National Park

A turtle travels only when it sticks its neck out.

• Korean Proverb

• Courage, Fear, Leadership, Risk, Travel

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• Yellowstone National Park

Danger can never be overcome without taking risks.

• Latin Proverb

• Risk

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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 F. Kennedy

• Action, Risk

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• Hana, Hawaii, Maui, Red Sand Beach

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

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Courage, Risk

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• Hawaii, Maui

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Life, Risk

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• Lake Tahoe

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

• Herodotus

• Risk

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• Lake Tahoe

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

• General George Patton

• Risk

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• Grand Teton National Park

Do one thing every day that scares you.

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Courage, Fear, Risk

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• Grand Cayman

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.

• Confucius

• Accountability, Gratitude, Risk, Thinking

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• Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald

Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.

• Chinese Proverb

• Risk, Stress, Work

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• Nevada, Reno

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

• Pain, Risk

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• Lake Tahoe

Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is; stop worrying.

• Amelia Earhart

• Confidence, Decision, Fear, Goals, Risk

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