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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
Sep 10, 2025
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
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.
The 'Amazing' can only be created by facing fear, risk and failure during the process.
The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Risk more than others think safe.
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
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?
Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.
Our lives improve only when we take chances.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
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.
If you don't risk anything you risk everything
In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
to love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.
The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
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 coarse 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.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
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.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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.
It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.
It is not the critic who counts
Do one thing every day that scares you.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
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.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.