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Quotes About Risk

It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.
~ T. R. Pearson
The best results I have had in my life; the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'
~ Tim Ferriss
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
~ Tom Peters
The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life.
~ Tony Scott
You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.
~ Vanessa Mae
Life entails risk, and you have to draw some lines.
~ Gene Weingarten
All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.
~ George Santayana
I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
~ Henry Rollins
The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
~ Henry Van Dyke
If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.
~ J. K. Rowling
Nothing in life is guaranteed, including government guarantees.
~ James Cook
There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.
~ John Christopher
I can't let safety and security become the focus of my life.
~ Judy Blume
I don't know if I thrive in normal life.
~ Kathryn Bigelow
Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.
~ Louis L'Amour
Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.
~ Malcolm Forbes
I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.
~ Mark Wahlberg
Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
You had to risk your life to get love. You had to get right to the edge of death to ever be saved.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.
~ Megan Chance, The Spiritualist
I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.
~ Sara Sheridan, Truth Or Dare
Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.
~ Robert Griffin III
The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.
~ Paul Theroux
I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.
~ Lindsey Vonn