Quotes About Risk

Almost all life depends on probabilities.

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!

Those who never take risks can only see other people's failures.

I just think you need to spice up life every now and then with a bit of adventure and excitement.

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

I've thought of doing many things in my life, under the influence of life, and I've never actually thought of straddling two carriages while they're moving.

I don't care if my lettuce has DDT on it, just as long as it's crisp.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be.

Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

No one is watching, but you have to leap.

animals like bears or cougars. It was a marvel they hadn't yet seen anything more vicious

It only looked as though we were making the journey in two separate boats. The journey was ours, together, and the burden of having someone to watch out for, someone to care about more than myself, both deepened the risk and heightened the joy.

There was an element of risk - however small - in everything. You just had to accept that and get on with it.

The Christopher Columbus Aware: This award goes to those who, like good old Chris, when they set out to do something, don't know where they are going; neither do they know how to get there. When they arrive, they don't know where they are, and when they return, they don't know where they've been.

Torches," Porak ordered. "This is dumb," Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. "Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that we're coming? Maybe we should sing, too, in case they're blind.

Plans were for adventurers. He preferred the goblin approach. Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.