Quotes About Risk

You won't take risk without courage.

I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

To do something you're afraid of, especially for the sake of somebody else, is the very definition of courage.

All men would be cowards if they durst.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.

To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

Fear is the single strongest motivating force in our lives. ... The more frightened you become the better your chances of achieving success.

Many become brave when brought to bag.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it.

Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead for she is wont to favor the bold.

Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.

Fortune and Love befriend the bold.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Leadership is about having the courage to go against the advice of the so-called experts and doing what your instinct tells you is right.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies.