Risk Taking Quotes

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfying
relationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for a
marathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Those who dare take risks shall fulfill their passions.

It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

when it seems like giving up, then it seems like rising up

Sometimes you just have to have faith in your own ideas. If you don't someone else will. Why should it be them and not you? The only difference is who is willing to take a chance.

...If there is no risk, there is no reward.

What I'm getting at here is that you can be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.

An ambitious man needs to know when to take risks.

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.

Risk the risks.

Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime ‘let out all the length of the reins.

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.