Dorothy Day Quotes

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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.

It would break my heart to lose playing safe.

To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.

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.

It seems like the more I live, the more I realize that saying 'yes' is almost never a mistake. If you say no, it might feel safe, but then you end up going nowhere.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Life is too short not to experiment.

I said, I'm on this TV show and I love doing it, but I don't want to be known always as the silly 'Scrubs' guy... So part of me was like, You know what? Life's short. Let's go for it.

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.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

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.

Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.

I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

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

You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.