- If you want to increase your returns on life, increase your risk tolerance. Neil Strauss
- “People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters.” ― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
- To minimize risks, make regular tiny bets. Maxime Lagacé
- “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, Fear of Flying
- Risk is the only thing that’s safe. Safety is an illusion. Nothing is guaranteed. Except the end. So risk it all anyway. Ed Latimore
- “Risk is a necessary component of success.” ― Carlos Wallace
- “La strada non presaDue strade divergevano in un bosco d’autunnoe dispiaciuto di non poterle percorrere entrambe,essendo un solo viaggiatore, a lungo indugiaifissandone una, più lontano che potevofin dove si perdeva tra i cespugli.Poi presi l’altra, che era buona ugualmentee aveva forse l’aspetto miglioreperché era erbosa e meno calpestatasebbene il passaggio le avesse rese quasi uguali.Ed entrambe quella mattina erano ricoperte di foglieche nessun passo aveva anneritooh, mi riservai la prima per un altro giornoanche se, sapendo che una strada conduce verso un’altra,dubitavo che sarei mai tornato indietro.Lo racconterò con un sospiroda qualche parte tra molti anni:due strade divergevano in un bosco ed io -io presi la meno battuta,e questo ha fatto tutta la differenza.” ― Robert Frost
- You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is. Will Rogers
- “I now understand that life comes with no guarantees. There is risk at the heart of every decision we make. No matter how much we plan things—or not plan anything at all—life’s plans will always take precedence over our own.” ― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur’s Journey
- “It’s more risky to take no risks at all.” ― Constance Friday
- Everything in life is a risk/reward proposition. Sanjay Gupta
- “You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- One of the most important mental skills you must learn is to accept risk. If your mind is deeply anchored in short-term loss and pain avoidance, you will attract that which you fear. You will shoot yourself in the foot. Yvan Byeajee
- To make hits, take swings. Jack Butcher
- “How full the cup of my life might be is based largely on the degree to which I’m willing to risk failure, with the degree to which I’m willing to risk success following at a close second.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Ella Wiliams
- You won’t skid if you stay in a rut. Kin Hubbard
- “In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.” ― Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
- A leader, by definition, sticks his or her neck out. Naval Ravikant
- “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.” ― Jim Carrey
- “One suffers a great deal when one has a dream but no courage to follow it than the one who does follow the dream despite the circumstances.” ― Akash Rathod, Ice Town
- If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Annie Dillard
- “You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
- Risk takers never complain. They do. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)
- “Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.” ― Thomas Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley – Volume 1
- “Taking risk will have its consequences, so does not taking any risk.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- The goal is not to have an easy life but a meaningful one, and meaning typically flows from overcoming difficult challenges. Ed Latimore
- The future belongs to the risk takers who make the unknown comfortable and the uncertain familiar. Ed Latimore
- “Despite her fears she found,The secret to an outstanding life,Is risking the fall,For the possibility of flight.” ― Kyra Jackson
- “Oh I know it’s cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk’ve ever been” ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality