Jacqueline Cochran Quotes

The boring, safe choices never stand out. Take risks!

Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.

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

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

I'll take any risk there is.

If it is not scary, it is not worth doing.

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

I like taking risks with things.

My mantra in life is 'nothing ventured, nothing gained,' and I very strongly stick by it.

It's always fun to take risks.

As stars, we need to take risks, and I was up for those challenges.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

I am sufficiently wary of dangerous situations, but I'm not scared of having a go.

I think you make impacts by taking risks.

Fortune sides with him who dares.

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.

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I want to be the guy out there on the edge.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

I think it's important to take chances.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.