Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. – Roger von Oech
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. – Leo F. Buscaglia
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living. – Fernando Flores
I am of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it’s a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I’d be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do. – Thomas Jane
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. – Leo F. Buscaglia
You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living. – Fernando Flores
I am of the mind that life is a risk. Every time you leave your house it’s a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I’d be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do. – Thomas Jane
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
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
It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult. – Seneca
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. – Paul Tillich
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. – William James
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart – Paulo Coelho
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. – Jim McMahon
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good. – Ezra Pound
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. – George Herbert
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum. – Sir Walter Scott
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. – Pablo Picasso
Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. – David Lloyd George
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. – Billy Wilder
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety. – Goethe
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done. – Cardinal Newman
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
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin
Author and Credits: Tyler Tervooren