Quotes About Risk

In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.

The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile ... initially scared me to death.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success.

Entrepreneurs, in accepting risk, achieve security for all. In embracing change, they ensure social and economic stability.

Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

Between two evils, I always picked the one I never tried before.

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.

The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.

Calculation never made a hero.

To play it safe is not to play.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.