You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

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

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The “sure thing” boat never gets far from shore.

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

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

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

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.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Who dares wins.

Never tell me the odds.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Educated risks are the key to success.

“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.