Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

16.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

17.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

18.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

19.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

21.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

22.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

23.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

24.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

25.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

26.

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

27.

Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

28.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

29.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

32.

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

33.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

34.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

35.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

36.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

37.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

38.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

39.

If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

40.

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

41.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

42.

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

43.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

45.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

46.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

47.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

48.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

49.

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

50.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim