Richard Branson Quotes

Sometimes you have to take a risk if you want great things to happen.

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

If you want to walk on water, you have to get out of the boat.

Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

People get so scared to try things.

To be held back by fear is to miss out on challenging yourself in different ways.

I think I've gotten to the point in my life where I have to do everything that I'm scared of because you're not going to learn anything if you don't, so you just have to dive in the deep end and see if you can swim.

I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'

I still look forward to doing things I've never done before. But the fear beforehand is always worse than the actual moment.

The best things happen at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.

It takes courage to step out of the line marked 'security' into the line marked 'risk.'

Sometimes you've got to go to the wrong place just to show that you're not afraid to go there.

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.

Dive today from the cliff of what you know into what you can't know.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

Take a chance. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. And don’t fall in love with Plan A.

Take a leap of faith. You will either land somewhere new or learn to fly.

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

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.

Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened.