Quotes About Risk

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

A dedication to perfection means that we are doomed always to be just a heartbeat way - from exposure. Perfection is unchanging; lives are ongoing.

This is the rock 'n' roll life, and you had to invent it as you went along. There was no textbook to say how you operate this machinery.

I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me.

Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

Some things don't mix. Some things don't mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

The Warrior is terrified when making important decisions.

I don't know what's going to happen to me tomorrow. That's why I don't save my best for last.

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.

The warrior of light only risks his heart for something worthwhile.

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that.

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.

It may seem like a big risk to follow your dream, but isn't the greatest risk of all to miss your life?

Every risk is worth taking as long as it's for a good cause, and contributes to a good life.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.