Inspiring Quotes About Taking Risks to Fuel Your Courage and Ambition

As human beings, we need to take risks to achieve success. By taking risks, you have the opportunity to gain great rewards and learn valuable lessons along the way. Some of the best taking risks quotes stress the need to overcome your fears and push yourself to the limits.

For example, Soren Kierkegaard said, “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” This quote underlines the fact that taking a risk may make you feel uncomfortable for a while but not taking a risk can harm you for a lifetime. Another beautiful quote by Nicola Yoon, “Everything is a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you,” will help you realize that sometimes to not take a risk is also to take a risk​

Many entrepreneurs and successful people credit taking risks for their success. As said by Heath Ledger, “If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.” So how does taking risks help you grow? It is not about jumping into situations without any plan. It is more like pushing yourself to work towards your goal.

All these taking risks quotes and messages can help you realize that risks are necessary in life to reach greater heights. Be it career, personal life or writing a book, taking risks can help you gain new experiences and achieve greater things in life.

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Best Taking Risks Quotes 

“Adventure seeker, Risk taker, Her art is her heart.”― Carlo Kui

“There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, What happened.” – Casey Stengel

“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?” — Robert Schuller

“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – General George S. Patton

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ― Helen Keller

“A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.” – Albert Einstein 

“Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.” – Chinese Proverb

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe

“Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” – Frederick B. Wilcox

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin.”– Ivan Turgenev

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso

“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.” – John F. Kennedy

“As we risk ourselves, we grow. Each new experience is a risk.” – Fran Watson

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Short Quotes About Taking Risks

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy

“We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.” ― Maxwell Maltz.

“Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.” – Unkown

“Without struggle, success has no value.” ― Aaron Lauritsen

“There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.” – Drew Barrymore

“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 Drucker

“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“The reward is in the risk.” ― Rachel Cohn

“Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“If there is no risk, there is no reward.” ― Christy Raedeke

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Risk Taking Quotes About Life

“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” – Denis Waitley

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is full of risks, and you don’t want to raise someone who’s afraid of taking risks, either physically or emotionally.” Dana Reeve

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I . . . I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

“Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” – David Lloyd George

“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.” – Ray Bradbury

“There are costs and risks to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

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Risk Taking Quotes For Overcome Fear

“If we allow risk to be fear, then we are sure not to succeed. But, if we approach risk with proper planning and a good attitude, then most times we can minimize the risk and use it to our advantage.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” – Abraham Lincoln

“If you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it’s like to win.” ― Richard Branson

“No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.” – Henry David Thoreau

“The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.” – B.C. Forbes

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” – Elinor Smith

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Positive Risk Taking Quotes For Inspiration

“Successful people take successful risks. They plan balance options, and then take massive action. – Mitch Jackson

“It may seem scary, but it’s important for business owners to get out of their comfort zones. Sure, being in your comfort zone makes you feel safe and secure and there are not a lot of risks there. But, to discover, to explore, to innovate, to grow, you’ve got to take risks (big and small) to get where you want to go.” – Rieva Lesonsky, Small Biz Daily

I play in a way that means taking risks. The problem is that, from 300 passes, you make one mistake. Claudio Bravo

“Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” — Mary Tyler Moore

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

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Risk Quotes To Help You For Move On

“Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when the person looks back-she will hear her heart.” – Paulo Coelho

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins 

“Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dreaming more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” – Cadet Maxim 

“Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – E. E. Cummings

“It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.” – Philip Adams

“Because if you’re prepared and you know what it takes, it’s not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.” – Mark Cuban

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” Mark Zuckerberg

“You only do good work when you’re taking risks and pushing yourself.” Sally Hawkins

“It is no secret that the greatest treasures are found in the most remote, inaccessible, and difficult places where we must pursue them with great energy and even greater risk. It’s the same with our lives.” ― Craig D Lounsbrough

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If you take a great risk then there will always be the greatest hazard but if you succeed then it’s a great moment of joy.

Do you take any risks in your life if yes then share your experience with taking the risk? Share your favorite risk quote from the collection of Inspirational taking risks quotes in the comment section below.

So what’s the next big thing in your lineup as a difficult risk?