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• Risk: The possibility that something unpleasant or unwelcome will happen. Oxford Dictionary
• Risk: The possibility of something bad happening. Cambridge Dictionary
• Risk: Exposure to the chance of injury or loss; a hazard or dangerous chance. Dictionary.com
• Risk: The possibility of suffering harm or loss; danger.  American Heritage Dictionary
• Courage,  Boldness,  Caution,  Opportunity,  Possibility,  Danger

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• Life is a risk. Diane Von Furstenberg
• Life is for the gambler, it really is. Anthony de Mello
• All of life is the exercise of risk.  William Sloane Coffin
• We must understand that there can be no life without risk—and when your spirit is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks. Elie Wiesel
• Everything in life is based on daring. Martin Buber
• All real change requires risk. You must take risks every day of your life. You must get up each morning and ask: What can I do that is different? Debbie Ford
• 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

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Taking risks can provide great rewards

• The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. Shakti Gawain
• You must lose a fly to catch a trout. George Herbert
• Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is? Mark Twain
• Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! Friedrich Nietzsche
• If there is no risk, there is no reward. Christy Raedeke
• I’ve found luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. Brian Tracy

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Taking risks often leads to success …

• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
• If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment. Scott Raymond Adams
• If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John D. Rockefeller
• Unless you’re willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won’t happen. Phillip Adams
• Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. Maxwell Maltz
• The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. Roger Babson
• No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe. Harry Gray
• The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.
• To win you have to risk loss.  Jean-Claude Killy
• All men’s gains are the fruit of venturing. Herodotus
• Success,  Achievement

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… and progress

• This nation was built by men who took risks — pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.  Brooks Atkinson
• Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.  Frederick B. Wilcox
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Taking risks leads to learning and experience

• The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.  Lord Chesterfield
• Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.   Jackson Brown, Jr
• Be brave. Take risks.  Nothing can substitute experience.  Paulo Coelho
• Learning,  Experience

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Taking risks lets us grow and do extraordinary things

• Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. Philip Andrew Adams
• No noble thing can be done without risks. Michel de Montaigne
• Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are. Joan L. Curcio
• Behold the turtle… He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James B. Conant
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Taking risks opens the way to freedom and happiness

• I guess what I’m trying to say is, I don’t think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you’re not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
• Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary- line and adding to one’s liberty. Henri Frederic Amiel
• The voice of caution knows nothing of real joy. Neale Donald Walsch
• Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost
• Freedom,  Happiness

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Taking risks helps us to discover what is possible and realise our dreams

• You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go. Jim Rohn
• You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Paulo Coelho
• Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gid
• You don’t manifest dreams without taking chances. Stephen Richards
• Life awaits you on the other side of Risk. What can you lose? Face? Dignity? Who cares about those when greatness is possible? Who cares about those when fairy tales are at hand? Neale Donald Walsch
• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.  André Gide
• Possibility,  Dreams

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Fortune favours the bold

• Put a grain of boldness into everything you do. Baltasar Gracian
• Freedom lies in being bold. Robert Frost
• You must play boldly to win. Arnold Palmer
• Fortune befriends the bold. John Dryden
• When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder. General W.J. Slim
• Fortune favors the brave. Virgil
• Fortune sides with him who dares. Virgil
• Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Orison Swett Marden
• People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. Dale Turner
• If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It’s safer than the alternative.  Jeb Dickerson
• Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources. Norman Vincent Peale
• You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. John Barrymore
• Boldness,  Luck

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Not taking risks makes us pay a heavy price…

• You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. Wayne Gretzky
• When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given. Barbara Sher
• Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare
• If you cannot risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot become your best. If you cannot become your best, you cannot be happy. And if you cannot be happy, what else matters? David Viscott
• The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. Leo Buscaglia
• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent van Gogh
• It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult. Seneca
• The chief danger in life is that you take too many precautions. Alfred Adler
• There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything. Vauvenargues
• I refuse to tiptoe quietly through life only to arrive safely at my grave.
• We fail more often by timidity than by over-daring. David Grayson
• Without risk, without the potential to fail, your life will be a shadow of what it could be. You may survive, but you will never thrive.  Rebecca Rapple
• Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did. Jackson Brown Jr.
• If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?  Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
• If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.  Drew Barrymore
• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.  Seneca
• Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.  Samuel Johnson

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… because if you risk nothing, you risk everything

• If you risk nothing, you risk everything. Geena Davis
• The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living. Stephen Covey
• The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. Jawaharlal Nehru
• If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
• To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. Soren Kierkegaard
• The real risk lies in riskless living. Robin Sharma
• The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
• Riskless living is dangerous. And risky. Robin Sharma

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Take a risk each day to build your risk muscle

• Take a risk a day – one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it. Susan Jeffers
• Strengthen your risk muscle. Keep it in shape by doing new things. If you don’t, it atrophies and you’re no longer able to take chances. Make it a point to take at least one risk per week. Try a new recipe. Tackle a problem outside your field of expertise. Invest in a new idea. Roger von Oech
• Devote today to something so daring even you can’t believe you’re doing it. Oprah Winfrey
• 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
• Do you really think you’re gonna be on your death bed and wish you took less risks? Brian Johnson
• I believe the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare. Maya Angelou
• Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho
• A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are for. Grace Murray Hopper
• What you risk reveals what you value. Jeanette Winterson
• Dare to dream, dare to try, dare to fail, dare to succeed. Kingsley Ward
• And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin
• Everyone has a ‘risk muscle.’ You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don’t, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day. Roger von Oech
• We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. Georges Jacques Danton
• Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.

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Take the boat out of the harbour

• A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
• For ships are safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. Tom Kimmel
• The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure thing boat never get far from the shore. Dale Carnegie
• The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats. Paulo Coelho
• Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in a harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out. Jackson Brown Jr.
• For — believe me — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is — to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into unchartered seas!  Friedrich Nietzsche

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Do not be overly cautious …

• Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.  Samuel Johnson
• The voice of caution knows nothing of real joy. Neale Donald Walsch
• If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?  Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
• The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. Jawaharlal Nehru
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… for avoiding danger is no safer in the long run

• 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
• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. Helen Keller
• Life’s greatest dangers are often found in apparently small risks.  James Lendall Basford
• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.  Napoleon Bonaparte

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Be calculating in your risk taking

• Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton
• First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. Helmuth von Moltke
• The rash person is in some way blind to danger. The coward is blinded by it. The courageous person is intelligent enough to recognize risk, but committed enough to act despite of it, when action is appropriate. Tom Morris
• First ponder, then dare. Helmuth Johannes Ludwig

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Embrace the adventure that is life

• A moderate adventure is no adventure.  Terri Guillemets
• It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.  André Gide
• Without adventure civilization is in full decay.  Alfred North Whitehead
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Taking risks requires courage

• We don’t have to wait for fear to vanish altogether because that moment will never come; all we need is a moment of daring that can change a whole lifetime of waiting. Diane Conwa
• 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
• It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear. Paulo Coelho
• Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive—the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Don Miguel Ruiz
• If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances. Julia Soul
• The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.  Mignon McLaughlin
• There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.  Vauvenargues
• What is more mortifying than to feel you’ve missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?  Logan Pearsall Smith
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Learn to deal with the risk of failure

• Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking. Tim McMahon
• He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being. Paul Tillich
• Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave. Mary Tyler Moore
• To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
• 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 DeGenere
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If you never fail, it’s a sure sign you are not daring to take enough risks

• If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. Woody Allen
• Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. Teddy Roosevelt
• If you’re never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. Julia Sorel
• If you hit every time the target is too near or too big. Tom Hirshfield

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Risk failing and making mistakes

• If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not taking risks, and that means you’re not going anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more chances to learn and win. John W. Holt, Jr.
• It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually. Abraham Maslow
• Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
• If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
• If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk. Madeleine L’Engle
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Make the leap

• A bit of advice given to a young Native American at the time of his initiation: ‘As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It’s not as wide as you think.’ Joseph Campbell
• Leap and the net will appear. Julia Cameron
• Come to the edge”, he said. They said, “We are afraid”. “Come to the edge”, he said. They came. He pushed them … and they flew. Guillauame Apollinaire
• Leap! There is nowhere to fall but into the arms of grace. Marta Davidovich Ockuly
• Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. Ray Bradbury
• First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. Ray Bradbury
• Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never. Alan Bennett
• When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.  Cynthia Heimel
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Try Timothy Ferriss’s process for taking that leap

• Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are considering.
• What steps could you take to repair the damage or get things back on the upswing, even if temporarily?
• What are the outcomes or benefits, both temporary and permanent, of more probable scenarios?
• What are you putting off out of fear? Usually, what we most fear doing is what we most need to do.
• What is it costing you—financially, emotionally, and physically—to postpone action?
• What are you waiting for?
• Source: The Four Hour Work Week (by Timothy Ferriss)

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• Apart from health, family, friends, possessions, memories, rights and reputation, what do you have to lose. Ashleigh Brilliant
• He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. Jonathan Swift
• I hugged safety close to my chest and kissed risk full on the lips.  Betsy Cañas Garmon
• Why live on the edge when you can jump off it?  Sign at Macau Tower Bungy Jump
• I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.  K. Chesterton
• The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.  Robert MacIver
• To eat an egg, you must break the shell.  Jamaican Proverb
• You can avoid most of the sorrows of life, the only requirement being that you avoid all the happiness.  Robert Brault
• You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.  James Thurber
• You must lose a fly to catch a trout.  George Herbert
• You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.  Wayne Gretzky
• If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he certainly meant for us to stick it out. Arthur Koestler

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