Quotes About Risk

I enter a time of much peril, and am more likely to fail and die than succeed and live." "Those who succeed and those who fail are both destined to die.

He crossed the road when the signal was red, that's his problem!

Once you've decided to live by the sword it doesn't matter whether you're right or wrong. What matters most is whether it's fun.

Acting is the most insecure of all the trades, the most risky. In their professional lifetime most actors rehearse longer than they play, spend more time traipsing from office to office in search of jobs than they rehearse and play combined.

But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

Life is full of risks...that first step of faith was often taken neck-deep in fear.

Don't step in the river without knowing its depth

Lord Raoul asked me to tell you that if you get yourself killed, he will never speak to you again.

You haven't been bit till a dragon does it.

If you put your energy into how much a fall would hurt, you're already half way down.

I was never afraid of getting killed and I was never afraid of losing my nerve. My kind of courage holds up best under fire; it's different dangers, more refined and insidious ones, that shake me.

Not just the normal back-and-forth. A prickle in the air, a slicing edge. I couldn't tell if it was about her, or just the day that was it, or if it was the squad. Murder is different. The beat goes faster and harder; the tightrope is higher and narrower. One foot wrong, and you're gone.

old enough to take on the world and young enough to be a dozen kinds of stupid,

I felt different, changing. Like today was my day, if I could just figure out how. Like danger, but my danger, sweet tricky urgent luck, tumbling through the air, heads or tails?

The tricky shiver in the air was a reminder: everything you believe is up for grabs, every ground rule can change on a moment's whim, and the dealer always, always wins.

I'm confused by the idea that you shouldn't go into a pub and do anything that might be bad for you,

She had held her whole life, everything she was, as lightly as a wildflower tucked in her hair, to be tossed away at any second as she took off burning streaks down the highway.

You see? That's the point. It's all a big guess. They hope, they pray, they cook and garden and get a better job to pay the mortgage and read dirty books to keep bedtime interesting, but they don't know. There are no guarantees. Sometimes you just stop loving someone. You just stop.

The surest way to open yourself to hurt is to love, and yet you love anyway,

She had been hedging her bets now for years, making no decision at all rather than make a bad one. But that, in itself, was a decision, she realized, and this was where it was headed all along. Directly above her head, blood peppered

to failure." Playing it safe requires that we avoid risky situations—which covers pretty much all of life.

in exposing vulnerability we are always taking a chance and sometimes might get hurt ... the greater hurt, the real suffering, is in staying armored and isolated.

Galileo held the truths he had discovered to be of very great significance, but as soon as they endangered his life he recanted with the greatest of ease. He felt that whether the earth or the sun revolved around each other was not worth his life. He may also have felt that it was more important for him to live and work so that his students could spread the truth.

These included the top of Mount Everest and up the chief's rear passage.