Pat Conroy Quotes

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

It's important to take leaps of faith.

If you scared to take chances, you'll never have the answers...

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?

Risk is the willingness to fail.

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger.

Life is always full of dangers and I don't think one should avoid dangers.

You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

You had to take risks, follow some paths and abandon others.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

Going with the flow is soothing but risky.

Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

Any life worth living is going to have risks

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion.

Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.

The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.

You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.