Quotes About Willing To Take Risks

#1. There are pilots and there are pilots; with the good ones, it is inborn. You can't teach it. If you are a fighter pilot, you have to be willing to take risks.

Robin Olds

#2. Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.

Yo-Yo Ma

#3. My priest tells me i should not date a mormon but im just too in love with you that i'm willing to take risks

Ellen Hopkins

#4. The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.

Charles De Gaulle

#5. We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.

Barack Obama

#6. California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

Nicolas Berggruen

#7. The cable makers are the ones who are willing to take risks and do something original and push the envelope some.

George R R Martin

#8. You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#9. Friends describe me as someone who likes to sing and dance along the edge of the roof. I try to encourage young women to be willing to take risks, to stand up for the things they believe in, and to step up and accept the challenge of serving in leadership roles.

Wilma Mankiller

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Amanda Palmer

#14. Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

Mat McNerney

#15. The attackers are the people with bold, innovative ideas, who are trying to disrupt the status quo, and usher in a better way. We need to think out of the box, and be curious, and be willing to take risks.

Steve Case

#16. There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that 'Homeland' does. And yet, the audience still comes back and loves those characters.

Raza Jaffrey

#17. Just taking risks for risk's sake, that doesn't do it for me. I'm willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I've worked so hard to make sure that I survive.

Chris Hadfield

#18. 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

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

Ndiritu Wahome

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. We shouldn't be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

Donald Miller

#23. 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

#24. Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.

Peter Diamandis

#25. If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

Charles R. Swindoll

#26. Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#27. I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren't willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.

Dan Pearce

#28. So you know, i'm thinking that you can either keep yourself safe and not feel anything, or you can the risk of just loving him and letting him love you." she paused. "Is he worth the risk? And if not what is? What are you willing to take risk for, Wren?

Lauren Myracle

#29. A lot of people are willing to pray or to put in work, but they're not willing to take true risks.

John Tesh

#30. Oh, the miraculous energy that flows between two people who care enough to get beyond surfaces and games, who are willing to take the risks of being totally open, of listening, of responding with the whole heart. How much we can do for each other.

Alex Noble

#31. Without trust there's no way that any organization can sustain innovation. Because without trust no one is willing
to take the risks that innovation require.

Dennis Stauffer

#32. There has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation.

Cesar Chavez

#33. The world is full of people who want to play it safe, people who have tremendous potential but never use it. Somewhere deep inside them, they know that they could do more in life, be more, and have more
if only they were willing to take a few risks.

George Foreman

#34. In most parts of the world, starting a company that goes bust is dubbed a 'failure.' In Silicon Valley, we call this 'gaining experience.' We are willing to take the risks that are inherent for innovation.

Sebastian Thrun

#35. She understood the risks, the limits, the possible consequences, and she was willing to accept all of that in return for the sheer joy of being with him. One night with him ... one hundred ... whatever fate allowed her, she would take.

Lisa Kleypas

#36. There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.

Bode Miller

#37. It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.

Caspar Weinberger

#38. Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

Bill Gates

#39. As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch.

Sharon Salzberg

#40. The ultimate winners are willing to take ultimate risks.

Brooks Johnson

#41. For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.

Glen Taylor

#42. While I do not in any way mean to say that a woman should throw herself into a torturous or abusive situation, I do mean she must set for herself something in life that she is willing to reach for and therefore take risks for.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#43. What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

Jack McBrayer

#44. Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you'd just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.

Edward Whitacre Jr.

#45. Time plays no favorites and will pass whether you act or not. Take control of your life. Dare to dream and take risks...Compete! If you aren't willing to work for you goals, don't expect others to! Believe in yourself.

Anonymous

#46. A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

Christopher Hitchens

#47. Love is full of risks. Losing the person you love is one of them, and you have to be willing to take it.

Ashley Drew

#48. All great choices are made with great risks. You must decide for yourself if the consequences are worth the action you are willing to take.

Cathlin Shahriary

#49. The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are "too great for private industry." This means that bureaucrats should be permitted to take risks with the tax payer's money that no one is willing to take with his own.

Henry Hazlitt

#50. You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.

Lisa Edelstein

#51. Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word.

Richard Branson

#52. But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ...

James Cameron