Avoidance of Risk Quotes

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.

Failure is not about insecurity. It's about lack of execution.

I'm not a risktaker. I'm the total opposite.

'What if?' is just about the worst question I can ask myself, and I want to avoid it at all costs for the rest of my life.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

I'm not a security-type person, I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into all that. Now we just chill in the house. There are a lot of times when we want to go out, but we just don't.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

But I did break my mum's heart, because I turned down 'Strictly' twice. I just couldn't do it. It's not for me.

All too often our leaders shrink from their responsibilities and choose to do what is politically expedient.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.

Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors -- is almost as old as recorded history. It has always been a great temptation, for men of action no less than for men of thought, to find a substitute for action in the hope that the realm of human affairs may escape the haphazardness and moral irresponsibility inherent in a plurality of agents.