It is only when we take chances when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest.Walter Anderson
I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.Philip Zimbardo
You can fail at what you don’t want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.Jim Carrey
Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.Christopher Hitchens
Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.Denzel Washington
My partner Charlie Munger says there is only three ways a smart person can go broke: liquor, ladies and leverage.Warren Buffett
If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.Jeff Bezos
Ninety-nine percent of investors shouldn’t try to get rich too quickly—it’s too risky. Try to get rich slowly.Sir John Templeton
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.Joyce Meyer
If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.Marianne Williamson
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.Michelangelo
If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger, there is almost certainly no leverage.Paul Graham
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.Bjarne Stroustrup
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.Criss Jami
You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.Arthur Ashe
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.Andre Gide
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.Bill Bryson