“No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Sexing the Cherry (1989)
Variant: What you risk reveals what you value. (p.91)
Source: Written on the Body
“There is no safety. Only varying states of risk. And failure.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Brothers in Arms (1989)
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Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949Related quotes
Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer
Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)
Variant: Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Source: Living Loving and Learning
Context: To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
“Take risks and don't fear failure”
Waheeda Rehman (1938) Indian actress
Quote, Take risks and don't fear failure: Waheeda Rehman
“speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.”
Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War
Book I, 1.121-[5]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
“If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.”
Dan Quayle (1947) American politician, lawyer
Attributed to a speech in Phoenix, Arizona to the Phoenix Republican Forum (23 March 1990), quoted in Esquire (August 1992)
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