Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking.

–Tim McMahon

What you risk reveals what you value.

–Jeanette Winterson

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

–William Congreve

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.

–James F. Byrnes

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can — and surely will at times — fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

–Joyce Brothers

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

–Mignon McLaughlin

Have courage and a little willingness to venture and be defeated.

–Robert Frost

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

–George Shinn

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.

–Nora Roberts

If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

–Erica Jong

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

–Mark Twain

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

–Samuel Johnson