Elliott Smith Quotes

If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Who never wins can rarely lose, Who never climbs as rarely falls.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

Caution is the path to mediocrity.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

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

It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.

Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

But I didn’t dare. That has always been my trouble. I’ve never dared enough.

Those who play a safe game die very safely.

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Without risk, there can be no growth.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks.

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.

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

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

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