Quotes About Risk

I thought doing reality TV would be the greatest success of my life or the biggest mistake.

You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.

If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.

Life is filled with trapdoors.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

I never drove a car in my life. Given my drinking habits in those days, I would have been dead a long time ago - stumbling out of a bar at 4 a.m. and getting into a car.

Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler.

We have to gamble, and sometimes lose as George Ainslie argues; this keeps the appetite for life sharp.

That is a risk. Risk/reward, life's chances. There's always that part of it.

Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

Without the edge, [life's] boring...If you're doing something that's definitely achievable with 100% odds of success, where's the draw in that?

Impossible is a word for other people to use when life scares them.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

I'd rather have a go at life, so there's something to talk about once we're gone.

Grant needed a win, went for it, and got it. Lee needed a tie, went for the win, and lost.

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

from a child in danger to a dangerous child

Once we succumb to the temptations of censoring ideas with which we disagree, we step onto a slippery slope where everyone's freedom is at risk.

They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, In a Sieve they went to sea!

Bismarck once said, 'Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Needs danger in order to feel engaged with life and truly alive