“To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)
Variant: Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Source: Living Loving and Learning
Context: To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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Motivational speaker, writer 1924–1998Related quotes
“The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all”
“You’re the greatest risk I’ve ever taken. And the greatest reward.”
Variant: You’re the greatest risk I’ve ever taken.” His pressed his lips gently to mine. “And the greatest reward.
Source: Reflected in You
“Take risks and don't fear failure”
Quote, Take risks and don't fear failure: Waheeda Rehman
“There is no safety. Only varying states of risk. And failure.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
“If the life of a beloved woman—whether romantic partner or mother—is at risk, his life is at risk.”
Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 241
“If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.”
Attributed to a speech in Phoenix, Arizona to the Phoenix Republican Forum (23 March 1990), quoted in Esquire (August 1992)
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Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars
