Quotes About Risk

There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life, and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.

In danger there is great power.

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

No guts, no glory.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

All serious daring starts from within.

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

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

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.