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Take Risk Quotes

A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.
- Edward Abbey

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
- Paulo Coelho

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.
- Paulo Coelho

You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.
- Paulo Coelho

There are moments when you have to take risk, to do crazy things.
- Paulo Coelho

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
- Paulo Coelho

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

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
- Muhammad Ali

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

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
- Isabel Allende

The Ed Hardy man is confident with a strong sense of personal style. He is not afraid to be seen and take risks. He enjoys comfort and flexible style, yet he wants to stand apart from the crowd.
- Christian Audigier

I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about.
- Kevin Bacon

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.
- Drew Barrymore

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
- Martha Beck

Irreversible is not glamorous at all. I try to do different things because I want to grow as an actress and I like to take risks.
- Monica Bellucci

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

Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.
- Steve Brown

I'd rather take risks than make something that's cookie cutter.
- Sandra Bullock

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
- James E Burke

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

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
- George W Bush

You know, when you run you got to be all in and you take risks of winning and losing.
- Jeb Bush

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
- Tom Clancy

Liberalism regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situation, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
- Morris Raphael Cohen

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
- Morris Raphael Cohen

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect nothing is and no one is and that's OK.
- Katie Couric

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.
- Ellen Degeneres

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.
- Rose Kennedy

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

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.
- Patty Duke

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.
- Gregg Easterbrook

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
- Larry Elder

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous.
Resign yourself to be the fool you are...
...We must always take risks. That is our destiny..
- T S Eliot

You have to take risks.
- Perry Farrell

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.
- Michael Fassbender

I've always been inspired by artists who have shown musical and intellectual curiosity and the courage to take risks.
- Renee Fleming

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
- Bill Gates

The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
- Charles De Gaulle

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

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.
- Roberto Goizueta

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

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

Discovery is dangerous... but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is
doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.
- Brian Herbert

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.
- Emile Hirsch

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

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

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.
- Waylon Jennings

Just like with love. It's all or nothing.... That's why love is dangerous. We stand up for love. We take risks. Well, you of all people know about that - your own Soviet Russia, an entire nation rearranged to discourage love for anything other than one's country.'
Because love caused people to think for themselves, to look out for themselves and their loved ones.
- Daphne Kalotay

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
- Billie Jean King

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.
- Laurie Lee

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

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

So now what?'
'Well, if you insist on marrying me... But it's an awful risk we're taking!'
'Darling, that's what life's for - to take risks.
- W Somerset Maugham

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

Well look, CIA is an agency that has to collect intelligence, do operations. We have to take risks and it's important that we take risks and that we know that we have the support of the government and we have the support of the American people in what we're doing.
- Leon Panetta

...But I don't want you to be afraid to take risks. If it's worth it...If the person in his eyes is the person you want to be, the person you know you could be...then don't be scared..
- Nicole Peeler

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

People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
- Emmy Rossum

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
- Paul Ryan

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.
- John Sculley

The artist has to take risks.
- Irving Stone

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

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

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

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