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Quotes About Risk

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
~ Samuel Johnson
Bravery is the solution to regret.
~ Robin S. Sharma
As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.
~ Mark Steel
I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.
~ John Adams
It's better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.
~ Steven Pressfield
The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.
~ Steven Pressfield
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
~ Thomas Adams
I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.
~ Duncan Hines
If you do what you fear, you won't fear what you do.
~ Gordon Morton McGregor
You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.
~ Janette Rallison
The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.
~ Jeffery Taylor
If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!
~ John Eliot
It is better to be a fool than to be dead.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Trust is a good way to get oneself killed
~ Lauren Kate, Fallen
Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.
~ Michael Grant, Fear
Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.
~ Meg Cabot, All-American Girl
Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
~ Randy Alcorn, Deadline
It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.
~ Lauren DeStefano
Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.
~ Garth Brooks
Most unsuccessful people let their fears and doubts have the final say in how they live their lives.
~ Hal Elrod
Plan and execute your first failure so that you no longer have to fear it.
~ John C. Maxwell
I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.
~ Mary Chapin Carpenter