75 Risk Quotes to Encourage You to Step Outside Your Comfort Zone

1. "If you don’t take risks, you risk everything." - Geena Davis

2. "If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life." - Robin Sharma

3. "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T. S. Eliot

4. "The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open." - Chuck Palahniuk

5. "If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn

6. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” - Mark Zuckerberg

7. “If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” - Erica Jong

8. “No risk, no reward.” - Unknown

9. “The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.” - Chuck Palahniuk

10. “Never was anything great achieved without danger.” - Niccolo Machiavelli

11. “Fortune sides with him who dares.” - Virgil

12. "The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

13. "Risk is the price you pay for opportunity." - Tom Selleck

14. "Without risk, there can be no growth." - Bear Grylls

15. "Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." - George S. Patton

16. "No noble thing can be done without risks." - Michel de Montaigne

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

18. "What you risk reveals what you value." - Jeanette Winterson

19. "To win without risk is to triumph without glory." – Pierre Corneille

20. “The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” - Maimonides

1. "Taking risks doesn't mean shirking responsibility, but embracing possibilities." - Vick Hope

2. "If you don't risk, you can't win. I don't fear taking risks." - Marlon Moraes

3. "Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all." - Nicholas Winton

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

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

6. "Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing." - Leo Buscaglia

7. "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

8. "Taking risks is the best thing ever, and that's what gets you anywhere." - Benee

9. "But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along." - Melinda Gates

10. "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

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

12. "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

13. “Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.” - Susane Colasanti

14. "In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt." - Meg Cabot

15. "Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." - Walter Anderson

1. "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing." - Warren Buffett

2. "Risk is a function of how poorly a strategy will perform if the 'wrong' scenario occurs." - Michael Porter

3. "The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome." - Peter L. Bernstein

4. "The key to risk management is never putting yourself in a position where you cannot live to fight another day." - Richard S. Fuld, Jr.

5. "One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose." - Randy Pausch

6. "Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes." - Robert S. Kaplan

7. "Risk management is a more realistic term than safety." – Jerome F. Lederer

8. "Good risk management is not about avoiding danger, but knowing which dangers are worth facing." - Unknown

9. "Risk management means thinking ahead before trouble finds you." - Unknown

10. "A small risk seen early is easier to handle than a big one ignored." - Unknown

1. "There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything." - Luc de Clapiers

2. "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

3. "Don't be afraid to have a reality check. Taking risks is OK, but you must be realistic." - Joy Mangano

4. "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

5. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

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

7. "If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories." - Richard M. Nixon

8. "Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.'" - Justine Skye

9. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” - John A. Shedd

10. "Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It's the high-anxiety zone, but it's also where you discover who you are." - Nick Vujicic

11. "Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything." - Thomas Merton

12. "Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are." - Miguel Angel Ruiz

13. "There are risks and costs to action—but they are far less than the long‑range risks of comfortable inaction." – John F. Kennedy

14. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller

15. “Growth means change, and change involves risk.” – George Shinn

16. "It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?" - Jim Carrey

17. “If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.” - Criss Jami

18. “Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.” - Ray Bradbury

19. "Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk." - Dalai Lama

20. "Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity." - Gary Blair

21. "You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." - Chuck Yeager

22. "It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen." - Herodotus

23. "Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?" - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

24. "Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." - Katherine Mansfield

25. "You’ve got to keep fighting; you’ve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive." - Elia Kazan

26. "When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given." – Barbara Sher

27. "Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day." - Roger von Oech

28. "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore." - Andre Gide

29. "He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being." - Paul Tillich

30. "Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking." - Jim McMahon