Quotes About Risk

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild-goose chase; that is what wild geese are made for.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise.

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.

Why live on the edge when you can jump off it?

One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

If you treat the unknown as a minefield and never enter, you may avoid getting blasted but won't ever get to run along with the butterflies.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

The universe always wagers — life is risk.

Tho' I fancy'd the rose, yet I dreaded the thorn.

Chance takers are accident makers.

Working without safety is a dead-end job.

Danger never takes a vacation.

When you gamble with safety, you bet your life.

If safety is a joke, then death is the punchline.

Better dead sure than sure dead.

If you don't think it's safe, it probably isn't.

The safest risk is the one you didn't take.

We know not which stone the scorpion lurks under.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.