Quotes About Risk

Everything's a gamble, love most of all.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.

There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected - something amazing - could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust the universe.

What use was her grown-up knowledge--acquired through such initiations, at such risk--in this world of infants, who had to be kept safe?

Natural movement is riskier," he acknowledged, "but life is risky and music is an element of life, so it is risky, too!

Don't be afraid to fail.

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.

The first rule of truly living - do the thing you are most afraid of.

Wer gerade gewachsen ist, ist für Leichtsinn. Überhaupt ohne Leichtsinn ist das ganze Leben keinen Schuss Pulver wert.«

Like a double-edge sword, success cuts two ways.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.

It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object.

I f he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

It is far better to dare mighty triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to dwell with those poor and timid souls knowing neither victory nor defeat.

life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living.

The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.

As good Archbishop Loménie was wont to say: 'There are so many accidents; and it needs but one to save us.'—How many to destroy us?

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.