“If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.”

“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”

Lev Grossman book The Magician's Land

“…if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

“You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.”

Meg Cabot book Teen Idol

“Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.”

Richie Sambora (1959) musician, songwriter

“You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.”

Tristan Tzara (1896–1963) Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist

“Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.”

Hugh Prather (1938–2010) American writer

“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”

Michel Houellebecq book Platform

“Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

“If you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you, or you'll be way ahead of everyone else. ”

Steven Tyler (1948) American singer, songwriter, keyboardist