Courageous Risk-Taking Quotes

I want the OSS to recruit young men of disciplined daring who are calculatingly reckless.

Having the courage to make decisions and take action. Never be afraid to fail. You have nothing to fear if you have prepared to the best of your ability.

Impetuosity and audacity often achieve what ordinary means fail to achieve.

The most important factor in determining whether you will succeed isn’t your gender, it’s you. Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

Dream audaciously. Have the courage to fail forward. Act with urgency.

Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

If I have done a role that's taken me to a certain space emotionally, I won't repeat that; I would rather do something now that taps into something else in my psyche... maybe something that makes me nervous.

The supreme challenge of Labor is to recognise our 'revolutionary moment' when it arrives. And to have the courage to seize it - wholly, boldly, and completely.

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

To me, discomfort is a gift in the films that I'm making.

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.