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Taking Responsible Risks

Being adventuresome. Living on the edge of one's competence. Venture Out!

Do not fear risk. All exploration, all growth is calculated. Without challenge people cannot reach their higher selves. Only if we are willing to walk over the edge can we become winners.
The families of the Challenger Space Shuttle Crew
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Beverly Sills
. . . if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.
Anita Baker
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
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
My advice to someone who wants to become a CEO: Take risks and never stop learning.
Barry Rand CEO, Avis Rental Car
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
Pierre Corneille
There has been a calculated risk in every stage of American development--the pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
Brooks Atkinson
Failure is always a safe, familiar, no-risk refuge, a known experience; it focuses on testing no new responsibilities upon one. Success, on the other hand, is unknown territory and a high-risk business; the very life-style it imposes if full of relentless demands for even better performances and achievements.
Alan H. Olmstead
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love--that is, if you show them respect and trust—they start to perform up to their real capabilities.
Jan Carlson, President, Scandinavian Airlines System.
Every creative project I've produced required courage and a triumph over fear, but some potential accomplishments remain unrealized because of fear of failure, fear of rejection, fear of ridicule, fear of error.
Dr. Edward Rockey
Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger -because when you do, you find out you can do it.
William Sessions, Former FBI Director
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Alexander Smith
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.
Laurel Cutler
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Wayne Gretzky
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick B. Wilcox
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Why not go out on a limb. Isn't that where the fruit is?
Frank Scully
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