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30 Quotes That Will Give You The Push You Need To Take More Risks In Love & Life

If you don't try, you'll never know. 
Rania Naim
September 23, 2016
“You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.”
— Nora Roberts, Dark Witch
Tagged: Happiness, Work, Taking Risks
“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Tagged: Love, Leap of Faith, Trust, Taking Chances
“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.”
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides To Die
Tagged: Adventure, Opportunity, Chance, Taking Risks, Taking Chances, Comfort, Comfort Zone, Breaking Free
“What if you didn’t run? This one time. What if you stayed, and let love overtake you?”
— Dr. Joshua Bennett
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Taking Chances, Choosing Love, romance, Going All In
“When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life and that I can’t do.”
— J. C. Chandor, A Most Violent Year
Tagged: Action, Taking Action, Taking Risks, Doing It Scared, Fear
“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Tagged: Mistakes, Life, chances, Courage
“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
— Ellen Degeneres, Seriously...I'm Kidding
Tagged: risks, Success, Failure
“It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
Tagged: Failure, Trying, risks
“Elsewhere are two letters that were never sent, because of pride, each a declaration of love that would’ve changed lives.”
— Iain Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
Tagged: Love, Love Letters, What Could Have Been, Taking A Chance, Taking Risks
“Because what else are we going to do? Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect? I believe great people do things before they are ready.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: opportunities, risks, chances
“That's when I finally got it. I finally understood. It wasn't the thought that counted. It was the actual execution that mattered, the showing up for somebody. The intent behind it wasn't enough. Not for me. Not anymore. It wasn't enough to know that deep down, he loved me. You had to actually say it to somebody, show them you cared. And he just didn't. Not enough.”
— Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You
Tagged: Showing Up, Relationships, Love, Trying, Intention
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Life, Heartbreak, strength, Courage
“A model might sometimes help us to avoid repeating the stupid mistakes that others have made, but, more often than not, it becomes a prison that makes us repeat what everyone else has always done. ”
— Paulo Coelho, Like The Flowing River
Tagged: Life, Taking Risks, Mistakes
“There's always that chance, isn't there? That slim chance. It's all about slim chances now. ”
— Rich Jepson, The Walking Egghead - A Walking Dead Quiz Book
Tagged: chances, risks
“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Tagged: chances, risks, Bravery
“Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.”
— Junot Dìaz, Drown
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, Trying, Working Hard
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
— Samuel Beckett, How the 20th Century’s Most Depressing Writer Became the Poster Child for Silicon Valley Success
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Failure, Trying
“A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.”
— John A. Shedd, What's the most inspirational quote you know? • /r/AskReddit
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Bravery, Courage, Moving Forward, Safety
“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Taking Chances, Do It, Going For It, Adventurous
“You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
— Tom Hiddleston, The Tom Hiddleston Handbook
Tagged: Future, Opportunity, risks
“Fret not where the road will take you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That’s the hardest part and that’s what you are responsible for.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: The Journey, The Path, Taking Risks, First Steps
“Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes but it's the only thing that I know when it gets hard.”
— Ed Sheeran, Photograph
Tagged: Love, Song Lyrics
“Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
— Leo Buscaglia, Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
Tagged: Postive, Motivational, Inspirational, risks
“You can find the good in anybody if you just give them a chance, benefit of the doubt. Sometimes people disappoint you, sometimes they surprise you, but you never really get to know them until you listen for what's in their heart. that's what we should do. so for all you skeptics out there. prepare to be surprised.”
— Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill
Tagged: chances, heart, People
“Never be ashamed,’ he said. ‘Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.’
‘How will I know which is which?’
‘By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.”
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Tagged: Acceptance, Life Offers, Trying, Working Through Things
“Go for it. Whether it ends good or bad, it was an experience.”
— Poems Porn, Facebook Page
Tagged: Taking Chances, Admitting Feelings, Relationships
“Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.”
— Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble
Tagged: risks, chances, Life, Meaning
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
— Ernest Hemingway, 20 Quotes About Passion That Will Give You Chills
Tagged: Bounce Back, Courage, beauty, risks, Sacrifice, Virtues, vulnerability, Life
“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, Inspirational
“But if you don’t try, you’ll still wake up every day wondering, you’ll still stare at your phone waiting, you’ll still ask yourself questions you’ll never know the answers to. Because taking risks is not only part of life, it’s also an essential part of love.”
— Rania Naim, If You Don’t Try, You’ll Never Know
Tagged: Taking Risks, Taking Chances, Love, Trying