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50 Awesome Quotes on Risk Taking

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Cool post over at Bloging Innovation:

50 Awesome Quotes on Risk Taking

My favourites are:

1. ?Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.? ? Goethe

2. ?Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.? ? Helen Keller

4. ?Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go.? ? T.S. Eliot

9. ?If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.? ? Mario Andretti

10. ?Don?t be afraid to take a big step. You can?t cross a chasm in two small jumps.? ? David Lloyd George

12. ?Do one thing every day that scares you.? ? Eleanor Roosevelt

16. ?A man would do nothing, if he waited until he could do it so well that no one would find fault with what he has done.? ? Cardinal Newman

17. ?Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.? ? Tom Peters

22. ?Pearls don?t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it.? ? Chinese proverb

23. ?Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.? ? Samuel Johnson

27. ?I can accept failure. Everybody fails at something. But I can?t accept not trying. Fear is an illusion.? ? Michael Jordan

28. ?Opportunity dances with those on the dance floor.? ? Anonymous

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

30. ?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

34. ?What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?? ? Robert Schuller

40. ?If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.? ? Geena Davis

42. ?Remember, a dead fish can float down a stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.? ? W.C. Fields

45. ?You?ll always miss 100% of the shots you don?t take.? ? Wayne Gretzky

49. ?Danger can never be overcome without taking risks.? ? Latin Proverb

I need to make this a poster for my wallpaper.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).