Quotes About Risk

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]

Fear is only a four letter word.

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.

When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

One will never reach distant shores, if he chooses to remain upon the dock, In fear his little ship of dreams may be dashed against the rocks.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.