Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.
Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won’t suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back – and at some point everyone looks back – she will hear her heart saying, “What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage; the certainty that you wasted your life.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward
I'm not a huge risk taker. I think that, for me, I take certain kinds of risks, but if you look at me, you wouldn't say I was a big risk taker. I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.
All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.
...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.
Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.
You know your girlfriend is too young when she'll do everything in bed but go upside down because it's too scary.
...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that.
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage.
Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.
I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. [Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.]
To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
If you risk nothing you gain nothing
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.
I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.
I think for a lot of people, the financial barrier is the biggest leap you have to take to follow your dreams. A lot of people don't want to stick their necks out and take that risk, which is totally understandable - I think for a lot of people it doesn't happen because it's not a necessity. Unless it's a necessity to do this, it can be a pretty scary process.
The biggest risk a person can take is to do nothing.
