174 Quotes About Risk-taking

That grin was pulling me into the deep end of the pool. The scary part, the part that made me search desperately for some other task I could lose myself in, was that there was a small, insistent voice urging me to dive right in.

An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents’ and his grandparents’ generation have got through molding it. We can’t help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you:Remember we really don’t know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don’t know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.

But you can't get to the place you most want to be without taking a chance.

What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?

What I'm getting at here is that you can be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.

Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable for the next stage of life.

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.

It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.