Quotes About Taking Chances

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Listed below are some quotes about taking chances in life. Read and share with all the people you know.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?” – By Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.” – By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” – By James Bryant Conant

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.” – By Ray Bradbury

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?” – By Cynthia Heimel

Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” – By Frederick B. Wilcox

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – By Søren Kierkegaard

Don’t refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase — that’s what wild geese are for.” – By Unknown

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.” – By Tim McMahon

What is more mortifying than to feel you’ve missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree.” – By Logan Pearsall Smith

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.” – By Napoleon Bonaparte

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.” – By Brooks Atkinson

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.” – By Robert MacIver



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