Taking Risks - page 2

To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken, as the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing.
- Author Unknown

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong

Failures are a normal part of life. They are not disasters.
- Author Unknown

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
- Author Unknown

Statistically-- 100% of the shots you don't take, don't go in.
- Wayne Gretzsky

Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
- Richard Bird

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)

Every year that I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
- Mary Cholomondeley

I know you're still afraid to rush into anything... there're just so many summers, Babe, just so many springs... (song, 'Last Worthless Evening')
- Don Henley

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-62)