Jeanette Winterson Quotes

All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

Be willing to make bold decisions and be willing to make glorious mistakes. Learn from your mistakes, but you've got to be willing to make them first.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

Life is full of risks anyway; why not take them?

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.

In crises the most daring course is often safest.

When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I'll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You're only going to regret that you wimped out.

It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.

You cannot lead this country by being [politically] safe.

I have always been a risk taker.

Fearless doesn't mean careless. There is a thin line between fearless and careless. I think we need to play fearless.

Living involves making bold choices. You can't always know how they're going to turn out, and you can always play that game of wondering what might have been if you had made another decision.

You have to say, 'We think it's going to work. Let's go with it.' Either you're going to kill the world, or you're going to fall on your rear end.

I have done a lot of crazy things in my life, and I do not regret anything.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.

I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.