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Quotes About Risk

Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
~ Germaine Greer
Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance
~ Helen Rowland
Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.
~ Horace
Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.
~ James Clavell
If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
~ Jim Bouton
If you're afraid to live your life in a glass bubble, how can you do what we do in this industry?
~ Jimmy Smits
I'm surfing the giant life wave.
~ William Shatner
Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.
~ Yann Martel
Scared is the price brave people pay to enjoy lives that make history.
~ Robin Sharma
There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living.
~ Roland Smith
Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.
~ Ron Greenwood
There's no way a fighter should fight and put his life on the line, and a promoter makes more money than he makes.
~ Roy Jones Jr.
Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
~ Sean Hannity
Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.
~ Stacy Allison
For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'
~ Steven Seagal
When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can never fathom.
~ Subroto Bagchi
I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.
~ Sylvester Stallone
I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I'll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don't have that, you're not taking enough risks.
~ Taylor Kitsch
Once you step out of your comfort zone your life begins.
~ Uriah Hall
Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
~ Wally Lamb
Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.
~ Walter Bagehot
Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.
~ Warren Buffett
If you don't take chances, you can't do anything in life.
~ Michael Spinks