Quotes About Take Risks

#1. I have to say I enjoy physical comedy and I've always loved to kind of take risks. I don't like worrying too much about how I look or how I come across, so that can sometimes ... You know, I like to play those kinds of deluded but fun characters.

Amy Poehler

#2. Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.

Aaron Sorkin

#3. I think the more you hone your voice, take risks and talk about things that matter, the better chance you have of getting into the realm of the philosophers of stand up. But you have to be funny.

Ted Alexandro

#4. The only hard-and-fast rules a Perot must operate under are getting a sound education; being honest and ethical in our business dealings; treating the people who work for us with respect and dignity; and, finally, a Perot cannot be afraid to take risks when appropriate.

Ross Perot Jr.

#5. Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.

Jan Carlzon

#6. The conscious mind is small and weak compared to the emotional and spiritual power that we call daimonic. It may be the urge to create, take risks, and love. Life may be simple when you avoid the daimon of love, but it is also less passionate and meaningful.

Thomas Moore

#7. The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks.

Robert Frost

#8. Bottom line, you're either a risk taker, or your not, and if you don't take risks, you'll never win big.

Geno Auriemma

#9. Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

Caitlyn Jenner

#10. A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

Robert Cormier

#11. I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

Sue Grafton

#12. The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it.

Dana Spiotta

#13. It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

John Eldredge

#14. As long as people like me are unwilling to take risks, we will always be slaves to extremists who risk everything." - Kalila Mawiyah, Energy Dependence Day

Christian F. Burton

#15. Many educators are loth to admit that the pursuit of pleasure might be a valid reason for drug use, or to recognize young people's curiosity, their need to experiment, to take risks and define their own boundaries.

Tom Feiling

#16. I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.

Jason Mraz

#17. Take risks in your life in the pursuit of your dreams, and support the ones you love when they take risks.

Adrian Ballinger

#18. Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

Bobby Flay

#19. Don't hold back in your writing. Take risks. Go ahead and tackle that crazy idea that you think will never fly, because that may be the one that makes you stand out from the crowd. Keep pushing the envelope.

Carrie Vaughn

#20. In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.

Meg Cabot

#21. Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.

Ken Jennings

#22. Caution is a fine and worthy thing in any monarch, but a truly great ruler must also know when to take risks.

Alex Rutherford

#23. With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Keshavan Nair

#24. In life we must be willing to take risks, for that is the only way progress is attained.

Ndiritu Wahome

#25. When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

Kapil Dev

#26. You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.

Anthony A. Williams

#27. Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

David Packard

#28. I'm just a regular girl who likes to go snowboarding and picks her nose like anybody else. I just like to drive into things and take risks.

Cameron Richardson

#29. You can say a lot of things about me, but you can never say I don't take risks.

Diego Maradona

#30. Be confident in your approach to success in having a better future. Take risks, try new things, become diligent, and find new techniques because in the end you will develop a compelling emotional element.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#31. We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

Julie Walters

#32. To be a great artist, you have to be willing to take risks and to do things that no one would ever pay you for
at first.

Josephine Decker

#33. If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

C.S. Lewis

#34. If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.

Richard Branson

#35. We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Alan Hirsch

#36. I like to take risks as long as they're healthy, you know. They're good, smart risks.

Alyson Stoner

#37. Its boring not to take risks

Madonna Ciccone

#38. Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

Jason Kilar

#39. I like to surprise people. I try to take risks.

Carine Roitfeld

#40. Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.

Coretta Scott King

#41. In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

Mary Stuart Masterson

#42. I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance.

Robert Kiyosaki

#43. You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.

Cara Delevingne

#44. You need to take risks, you never know if the end results will be beautiful or strange, you need to be instantaneous, listening to every moments, without missing a scrap of the music, even if you play a rest!

Brian Blade

#45. I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

James Broughton

#46. We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.

Roy Bennett

#47. All the way through, we have been willing to take risks, provided at the end of it we can get a decent lasting settlement in Northern Ireland

Tony Blair

#48. Sometimes in this life you have to take risks on other people.

Zadie Smith

#49. You have to take risks.

Perry Farrell

#50. An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again.

Sheldon Adelson

#51. We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.

Barack Obama

#52. You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

Seann William Scott

#53. Be always adventurous in the creating and sharing of your art in any form. Take risks and do not settle for playing safe. If you hesitate you are restraining your creativity. Some will appreciate your creative work and others will not. Just be free in expressing the creative you!

Alison Blackmore

#54. If you're willing to take risks, Twitter is a vast amusement park of interesting life possibilities.

Amanda Palmer

#55. I'm not a communist - I believe in the free market and that entrepreneurs should be allowed to take risks because it creates wealth and jobs, but I draw the line at people risking other people's money. That's deplorable.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

#56. You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it ... take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her people, live out loud!

Danell Lynn

#57. I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

Rose Kennedy

#58. I was a well-educated young lady from Boston with a thirst for bohemian counterculture and no clear plan. But I had no idea what to do with all my pent-up longing for adventure, or how to make my eagerness to take risks productive.

Piper Kerman

#59. Keep your eyes open, take risks, and whenever possible, don't think of things the way everyone else does.

Jon Daniels

#60. I tend to connect most easily with two kinds of people, those who are creating something and those who are easily vulnerable. Both trees grow from the same root, I think, and that's the willingness to take risks.

Donald Miller

#61. 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

#62. Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

Patrick Lencioni

#63. Leaders wonder about everything, want to learn as much as they can, are willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. They do not worry about failure but embrace errors, knowing they will learn from them.

Warren G. Bennis

#64. I constantly make fashion mistakes but I think it's good to take risks.

Clemence Poesy

#65. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

#66. Humility allows us to take risks at the expense of our ego.

Praying Medic

#67. We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Ramsay MacDonald

#68. Oh, that God would have made His will ours! Giving us free will was not free; there were costs to consider and balance. The reward for our choices, for our belief in ourselves and our desire to do the right thing, were great. But along the way we had to take risks. We had to try.

Nancy Moser

#69. I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation.

Hiam Abbass

#70. History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?

Robert Harris

#71. When you take on more than the norm, your boss can't help but think that you're capable of a bigger role. This includes showing that you're willing to take risks by making innovative suggestions.

Travis Bradberry

#72. I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.

Lindsey Vonn

#73. I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

Billie Jean King

#74. If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work ...

Christopher Galvin

#75. Learn from your existence and borrow things from your day to day. Have adventures. Take risks. Put yourself into your fiction. Because life offers a kind of writing advice you just can't read about
it's something only you can experience.

Chuck Wendig

#76. If you do not fear rejection, then you are free to take risks.

Art Hochberg

#77. It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.

Criss Jami

#78. Take risks in order to innovate

Anna Bligh

#79. Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Sofia Lauren are my style inspirations. In terms of modern day actresses who I find inspiring, I love Emma Stone, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst and Evan Rachel Wood. They aren't afraid to take risks and make edgy.

Carly Steel

#80. Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.

Frederick Buechner

#81. Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

Felix Rohatyn

#82. Of all our basic virtues, courage is the one that helps us to live exactly the way we want and provides the psychological fuel we need to create, take risks, help others, and face hard times ... Courageous action is humanity at its finest.

Robert Biswas-Diener

#83. When working on your own, you can make a choice and find out six months later that you made a bad choice. But when you work with people you trust, who understand your obsessions, you can take risks.

Janet Fitch

#84. If you never take risks in life, you'll never see anything new

Blake Lewis

#85. The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Ernest Hemingway,

#86. My parents taught me honesty, truth, compassion, kindness and how to care for people. Also, they encouraged me to take risks, to boldly go. They taught me that the greatest danger in life is not taking the adventure.

Brian Blessed

#87. The Internet has allowed a lot of access - people feel entitled to change the ending of games, for example. So there are a lot more voices coming at you all the time, which I think has its effect on creative decision making and possibly makes people more afraid to take risks.

Tim Schafer

#88. Don't be intimidated by other people's opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.

Paulo Coelho

#89. Faith in the guidance of Spirit gives you the courage to take risks, because you're assured that whatever happens, a Higher Power is on your side and you will survive.

Colette Baron Reid

#90. People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Peter F. Drucker

#91. I realized that for my own part, I was much more likely to take risks, reach out to others, and expose myself to rejection and failure when I felt happy. When I felt unhappy, I felt defensive, touchy, and self-conscious.

Gretchen Rubin

#92. Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order to be intensely alive.

Royal Robbins

#93. People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

Kunal Nayyar

#94. All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

Ken Robinson

#95. When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

Naveen Jain

#96. Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

Irwin Winkler

#97. If you don't take risks, you don't drink champagne.

Garry Kasparov

#98. You have to take risks on policy. You can't be a politician, wringing your hands, worried about what the public opinion polls are saying or worried about the negative attacks. If you believe in something, go fight for it.

Scott Pelley

#99. Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.

Isabel Allende

#100. Change makers take risks and are ready to die for excellence than to give excuses and live for mediocrity.

Israelmore Ayivor