Risks Quotes

Monster or not, he was risking his neck to save her.

We must dare and dare again and go on daring.

Georges Jacques Danton

Creativity is inventing experimenting growing taking risks breaking rules making mistakes and having fun.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life-even when it's a kick in the teeth.

You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in.

We can only do what is possible for us to do. But still it is good to know what the impossible is.

Maria Irene Fornes

I love the challenge.

Into the darkness they go the wise and the lovely.

Edna Saint Vincent Millay

Dare to be naive.

R. Buckminster Fuller

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To gain that which is worth having it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Bernadette Devlin

We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Benjamin Disraeli

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through of getting to the other side the relief of a conflict healed the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Marilyn Ferguson

No guts no glory.

Anonymous

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

He gets a good hold on the paintbrush then confidently has the ladder removed.

Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. Better to die than to live in slavery.

Emmeline Pankhurst

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul to either conquer or perish with honor is the secret of victory.

General George S. Patton

If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?

All serious daring starts from within.

Risk! Risk anything! ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

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

Jennie Jerome Churchill

There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead where there were no paths.

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

The Palatine of Posnan

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.

The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.

For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Calculation never made a hero.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

To play it safe is not to play.

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

Charles F. Kettering

Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

James A. Garfield

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

When something does not insist on being noticed when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

There are those who have discovered that fear is death in life and have willingly risked physical death and loss of all that is considered valuable in order to live in freedom.

Virginia Burden Tower

In danger there is great power.

Agnes Whistling Elk

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory.

General Douglas MacArthur

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road-the one less traveled by-offers our last our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

Life has no romance without risk.

The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

We may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Randolph Bourne

A dreamer-you know-it's a mind that looks over the edges of things.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Elizabeth Taylor

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

English Proverb

The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

Between two evils I always picked the one I never tried before.

Mae West

Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

People who are born even-tempered placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn never become great saints.

Eva Le Gallienne

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