Quotes About Risk

The world is waiting for you. Good luck. Travel safe. Go!

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.

Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.

I believe when you're stuck in one spot for too long it's best to throw a grenade where you stand, and jump…and pray.

There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

Life is a daring adventure or nothing.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent.

There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.