Jimmy Johnson Quotes

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.

In life you need to take a risk.

You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing.

Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

Son, seek out a kingdom equal to and worthy of thyself, for Macedonia is too little for you.

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

Like Forrest Gump, I just took off and it paid off.

There is something to be said about taking the risk. We all know that is where the greatest reward is.

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

It's not a problem to be great and do good things.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.