J. K. Rowling Quotes

Some people revel in taking risks, and some go through life taking no risks at all.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

I don’t care about risk, honestly. The riskiest thing to do is not to act. I would far rather try and fail than fail not trying.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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

People who are scared don't live life.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

When you put yourself out there, you're putting yourself in the position to make a mistake.

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself.

Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.