T. S. Eliot Quotes

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

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

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance.

Risk is an essential part of progress.

The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees.

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

If your work isn't exciting, doesn't stir the emotions, where's the challenge? Where's the progress if you always play it safe?

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

In life you need to take a risk.

If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.

I think it's important to take chances.

My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

I was always interested in the possibility maybe of finding my way into a big adventure.

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

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.