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Quotes About Risk

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
~ B. C. Forbes
There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.
~ Cato the Elder
To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.
~ Sterling Hayden
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.
~ William Penn
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
~ Charlie Chaplin
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
~ Dorothy Day
I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid.
~ Rafael Nadal
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
~ Brandon Boyd
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
~ Emile Hirsch
The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.
~ George Leigh Mallory
At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.
~ Todd Skinner
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
~ Jeanne Moreau
I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.
~ Matthew Perry
If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined.
~ Harlan Cleveland
When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say 'wow, that was an adventure,' not 'wow, I sure felt safe.'
~ Tom Preston-Werner
Not knowing what will happen makes life fun.
~ Akechi Mitsuhide
Sure things are going to get sketchy, but when your having the time of your life whats sketchy?
~ Rob Dyrdek
The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
~ Gene Robinson
I put the sweat of my life into this project, and if it's a failure, I'll leave the country and never come back.
~ Howard Hughes
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
~ Fay Weldon
I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
~ Brock Yates