Chance And Risk Quotes

To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system geared to the domination of nature and the reflexive making of history. Fate and destiny have no formal part to play in such a system, which operates (as a matter of principle) via what I shall call open human control of the natural and social worlds.

Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

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

I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.