Ellen Hopkins Quotes

My motto in life is 'Take risks;' you don't have a voice if you don't. You have to venture outside your boundaries. That's what life's all about.

Live dangerously and you live right.

The truth is, I like to engage with life fully. Given an opportunity to do something I don't often get a chance to do, I feel the need to try it, even if I suspect I'll make a fool out of myself.

When we stop taking risks, we stop living.

Sure, give me an adventure and I'll ride it.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

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

When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.

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

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

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

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.

If you're not adventurous,, you're not really living, I think... especially in college.

I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.

Life is too short to be scared and not take risks. I'd rather be the person that's like, 'I messed up,' than, 'I wish I did that.'

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.