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Quotes About Risk

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
~ Jennie Jerome Churchill
All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.
~ Dale Carnegie
Only those who dare, truly live.
~ Ruth P. Freedman
Life has no romance without risk.
~ Sarah Doherty
We love because it is the only true adventure.
~ Nikki Giovanni
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
~ Neil Simon
It is only by risking ... that we live at all.
~ William James
Diane von Furstenberg
~ Life is a risk.
To be alive at all involves some risk.
~ Harold MacMillan
To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.
~ Jacqueline Cochran
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
~ Thomas Fuller
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
He that is not in the war is not out of danger.
~ Anonymous
Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.
~ Anonymous
It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.
~ Sonia Johnson
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
~ Anonymous
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
~ Helen Keller
A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame, and the brunt of the storm.
~ Herbert N. Casson
Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger.
~ J. C. F. von Schiller
Unless you enter the tiger's den, you cannot take the cubs.
~ Japanese Proverb
An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
~ E. M. Cioran
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca