Taking a Risk Quotes

One man with courage makes a majority.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.

Going the bold way somehow has a very negative connotation in Bollywood.

The system did not want me to make 'Go.' And I sort of stood up to the system and made the movie I wanted to make, and the fact that I did that and I'm proud of the movie means I'm really proud of myself when I look back on that.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.

At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.

When I see something that's wrong, I just speak and act first and I'll take the consequences later.

One small decision, for me to get on a flight from Finland to the U.K. - I had no idea how that one small thing could just change my whole life forever.

Your silence will not protect you.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

After I quit the U.S. Ski Team, there was a fair amount of, you know, grief that follows that, and I just wanted to take a year off. And I had a friend that lived in Los Angeles, said I could crash on his couch. And so I just kind of did the first really spontaneous thing I'd done in my young adult life.

Courage doesn't come by doing what everybody else says. Courage does by what you know is right.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

There is something to be said about making a big play at any time.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.

I was sick of waiting for people to jump on hooks for songs I produced. So I tried singing myself, and I haven't looked back.

I started doing Bollywood and film music, and now, it has come to a point where I've started to say no. I want to do my own music. I have been there and done that, so I am not there to achieve that any more. I just want to put my music out there, and if people listen it, okay; if they don't, then fine.

Political courage reads well in editorials, but it doesn't translate into political reality.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.