Quotes About Risk

The trouble is, these four domains of behavior coexist in all of us. A person who is risk-averse in one situation will turn reckless in another. All it takes is a changed reference point.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

The manner in which a man chooses to gamble indicates his character or his lack of it.

You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger -- because when you do, you find out you can do it.

The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger.

'Tis a naughty night to swim in.

For many men that stumble at the thresholdAre well foretold that danger lurks within.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

You will hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard.

I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.I think there be six Richmonds in the field.

My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,Nor to one place.

Delays have dangerous ends.

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeveFor daws to peck at.

We must take the current when it serves,Or lose our ventures.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast;Ready with every nod to tumble downInto the fatal bowels of the deep.

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.

Men that hazard allDo it in hope of fair advantages:A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Bearing their birthrights proudly on their backs,To make a hazard of new fortunes here.

Were it goodTo set the exact wealth of all our statesAll at one cast? to set so rich a mainOn the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?

We ready are to try our fortunesTo the last man.

Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?