Nastia Liukin Quotes

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

In life you need to take a risk.

Guess, if you can, and choose, if you dare.

Sometimes, you have to take a big risk.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

Now I ask you to make your sacrifice. Take a gamble. I took the plunge and I'm glad of it.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

I take risks.

Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? Be strong and of a good courage. Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes. . . . If death ends all, we cannot meet death better.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

There is nothing more dangerous than to leap a chasm in two jumps.

The ultimate risk is not taking a risk.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

It's important to take risks.

The principal difference between an adventurer and a suicide is that the adventurer leaves himself a margin of escape (the narrower the margin the greater the adventure)

I love to take risks and see how I cope with the situation.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.