Taking Risks Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old taking risks quotes, taking risks sayings, and taking risks proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off. Fannie Lou Hamer
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. Geena Davis
In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk. Graham Sutherland
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones. Jeffrey Kluger
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Leo Buscaglia
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, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free. Leo Buscaglia
To love is to risk not being loved in return. Leo Buscaglia
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. Louise Erdrich
Determination, energy, and courage appear spontaneously when we care deeply about something. We take risks that are unimaginable in any other context. Margaret J. Wheatley
This is the risk the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself. Martin Buber
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. Mitt Romney
Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It's the high-anxiety zone, but it's also where you discover who you are. Nick Vujicic
The risk of failure is part of the fun of what I do. Paul Simon
There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. Peter Drucker
To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille
You will never be stylish if you don't take risks. Rihanna
Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever. Susan Cain
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go T. S. Eliot
Risk is the price you pay for opportunity Tom Selleck
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. Warren Buffett