Rumi Quotes

Action makes more fortune than caution.

If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

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

What do you say to taking chances?

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

Risks are a measure of people. People who won't take them are trying to preserve what they have. People who do take them often end up having more.

He who hesitates is poor.

Entrepreneurs' willingness to innovate or just to invest - and thus create new jobs - is driven by their 'animal spirits,' as they decide whether to leap into the void.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

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.

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

It's better to act and to regret / Than to regret not to have acted

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.

Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.