Quotes About Risk

I was brought up to believe you should always live the most interesting life you can.

I have never in my life walked with a harness. The weight of the tether, makes it feel like I'm dragging an anchor behind me.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It's impossible to be alive and safe.

I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

There is a huge difference between danger and fear.

She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.

I uprooted my life from Australia and came over to America with the idea of pursuing my acting career. I wasn't really sure where I would end up. I threw caution to the wind.

Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.

There's nothing risky in talking about your personal life. People do it all the time.

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.

Getting life insurance is like making a bet you can't win. If you live, you don't get the money. If you die, you don't get to enjoy the money.

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread

You shouldn't reward me for endangering your life, you know. Think of the precedent you're setting.