Quotes About Risk

I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and independence. Life then teems with excitement. There is stagnation only in security.

Adventure: the pursuit of life.

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . .

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Life is full of risks anyway, why not take them?

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You cant open your heart and not have some hurt because youre in a human experience. Even if its the love of your life and you have many wonderful, deepening, growing, powerful years together, its a human experience and that person will pass over. Love takes courage. Be courageous.

Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming ... WOW! What a ride!

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

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

Our fears always outnumber our dangers.

Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive. --- Copyright © 2000 Stacey Charter

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.