Taking Risks, Choose to Respond, and Some Risk Quotes

"If you don't like what's happening to you now, then it isn't much of a risk to choose to think and respond differently from what you do now."

This quote is also from the current book I am reading, 30 Seconds That Can Change Your Life. Oftentimes, as people we get caught up so vigorously in assessing risk that we forget or even forgo assessing value. If what you're doing today really isn't what you want in your life, then ask yourself: "How risky is it really if I just try one new thing today?"

Additionally, here are some more inspiring risk quotes!

The only person who never makes mistakes is the person who never does anything.

Denis Waitley

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Charles Du Bos, French critic and essayist

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Frederick Wilcox

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy

People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin, Author

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

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 More Mark Twain quotes on life

It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.

An American Proverb

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T S Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot