Dean Karnazes Quotes

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

You don't achieve anything by playing it safe.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

You cant be afraid to take a risk. You can't be afraid to take a risk because you think you might fail.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Good parts should always scare you a little bit, and good parts... you might not get advice to do them.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

You must risk to win.

Sometimes you have to take a risk if you want great things to happen.

People get so scared to try things.

Don't be afraid to step through some of that uncertainty that you might feel when you're passionate about doing something.

There is no achievement without risk.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it.

When you remove the risk, you remove the challenge. When you remove the challenge, you wither on the vine.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

Never surrender opportunity for security.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.