Risk Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old risk quotes, risk sayings, and risk proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it. Jack Canfield
I take risks to find clever and exciting solutions. Peter Folkes
Risk creates the conditions under which a certain creativity can manifest itself. Different materials force different risks and evoke different perceptions. Lorne Coutts
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. Mark Zuckerberg
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Paulo Coelho
Risk it, go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks. Mary Quant
It's important to take risks but it's idiotic to take them blindly. Terry Levine
Risk is like fire: If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you. Theodore Roosevelt
Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are. Joan L. Curcio
It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success. Robert Rawls
What you risk reveals what you value. Jeanette Winterson
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Muhammad Ali
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves. Marilyn Ferguson
There can be no great accomplishment without risk. Neil Armstrong
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the risks of inaction. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living. Covey
If you're not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there? Les Brown
Only the person who risks is truly free. William Arthur Ward
There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. Trammel Crow
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin