50 Awesome Quotes That Will Inspire You To Take That Risk

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. Tony Robbins
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. Sheryl Sandberg
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough. Marissa Mayer
If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. Donald Trump
Pearls don’t lie on the seashore. If you want one, you must dive for it. Chinese proverb
You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don’t play at all. And if you don’t play you can’t win. Judith McNaught
If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough. Mario Andretti
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. Oprah Winfrey
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
Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is. Jimmy Carter
The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations. Deepak Chopra
Do one thing every day that scares you. Eleanor Roosevelt
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Steve Jobs
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn
There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Aristotle
You get what you settle for. Thelma and Louise
If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs. Dhirubhai Ambani
I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‘one size fits all’ standard for happiness. Kanye West
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not. Deepak Chopra
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. Steve Jobs
Leap and the net will appear. Zen Saying
I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous. Sidney Crosby
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. John A. Shedd
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small. Tim Ferriss
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan
Your dreams are ballbusters; they’re not the yellow brick road. Kelly Cutrone
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. Ellen DeGeneres
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. Annie Dillard
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act. Andre Malraux quotes
Every man dies, but not every man really lives. Braveheart
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. J.K. Rowling
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Chinese Proverb
Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try. Jack Canfield
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. Mark Twain
Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. George Addair
Screw it, Let’s do it! Richard Branson
You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you. Marissa Mayer
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. Billy Wilder
I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself. Albert Einstein
Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary. Iveta Cherneva
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anais Nin
Life is being on the wire, everything else is just waiting. Karl Wallenda
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand

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