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Quotes About Risk

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.
~ Murray Leinster
Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.
~ Patti Hansen
If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.
~ Richard Branson
All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't.
~ Christopher Hitchens
You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
~ Eden Phillpotts
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
~ Eduardo Galeano
But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
~ Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years
I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
~ Peter Gallagher
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
~ Bear Grylls
I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.
~ Corazon Aquino
Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.
~ Neil Gaiman
Life is an adventure or nothing
~ Helen Keller
I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
~ Matt Bors
Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.
~ Michael Mayer
This life is full of great experiences if we only give it a shot.
~ Nick Vujicic
The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
One cannot live a creative life without first letting go of the fear of being wrong.
~ Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Life is lived on the edge.
~ Will Smith
Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Day in and day out, your tax accountant can make or lose you more money than any single person in your life, with the possible exception of your kids
~ Harvey Mackay
Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.
~ Herbert Hoover
The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
~ Herman Melville