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Quotes About Risk

However well organised the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
~ Havelock Ellis
Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life
~ Natalie Babbitt
Trading gives you an incredibly intense feeling of what life is all about.
~ Paul Tudor Jones
If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day
~ Paulo Coelho
I think our life is a series of adventures.
~ Oliver Stone
Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.
~ Richie Sambora
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.
~ Adam Levin, The Instructions
I live my life, breathless... A life of constant motion and excitement. A life that many will envy and most would avoid!
~ Eric Burdon
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
~ Bear Grylls
If nothing is ventured, nothing is gained.
~ John Heywood
Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew.
~ Kobi Yamada
Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.
~ Mike Caro
I don't think there'll ever be a challenge in your life if you don't try out something because you're scared. I think you just need to do it without any thoughts.
~ Moon Jong-up
Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it
~ Olive Ann Burns
If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.
~ Philip Pullman, Clockwork
Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.
~ Charles Ghigna
If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom.
~ Clint Eastwood
I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.
~ Daniel Tammet
But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
~ Fareed Zakaria
You only get a short life, so take chances.
~ John Galliano
A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
~ Joseph Campbell
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
~ Margaret Mead
If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.
~ Harvey Mackay