“The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.”
“Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
“It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.”
“Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.”
“One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”
“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.”
“When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.”
“The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.”
“You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.”
“Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.”
“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”
“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.”
“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”
“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.”
“Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”
“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.”
“Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.”
“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”
“Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.”
“Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.”
“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.”
“Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.”
“Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.”
“As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]”
“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.”
“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”
“All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.”
“What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.”
“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.”
“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?”