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Quotes About Risk

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.
~ Frances Mayes
Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.
~ Sean Stephenson
Exposure to some pesticides during infancy, even at very low levels, can lead to serious life-long consequences if the pesticides disrupt hormone-driven developmental processes.
~ Charles Benbrook
The better you putt, the bolder you play.
~ Don January
She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
~ Michael Cunningham
If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
~ Albert Einstein
I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
~ Paulo Coelho
We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.
~ David Bottoms
Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.
~ Edith Wharton
For me... it was always about the challenge of making this voyage... It was always a calculated risk, but life is a risk.
~ Jessica Watson
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
~ Daniel Boone
Whenever other worlds invite us, whenever we are balancing on the boundaries of our limited human condition, that's where life starts, that's where you start feeling yourself living.
~ Philippe Petit
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.
~ Miley Cyrus
The adventurous life is not one exempt from fear, but on the contrary, one that is lived in full knowledge of fears of all kinds, one in which we go forward in spite of our fears.
~ Paul Tournier
It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.
~ Agnes Moorehead
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.
~ Michael Savage
There is nothing better in life than sliding down snow before flying through the air.
~ Shane McConkey
If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.
~ Jeanne Moreau
If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.
~ Lindsey Vonn
We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
We can't always take the most obvious road in life.
~ Anne Shirley
I have two basic rules about winning in trading as well as in life: 1. If you don't bet, you can't win. 2. If you lose all your chips, you can't bet.
~ Larry Hite