Quotes About Not Playing It Safe

#1. I am such a girly girl, and I love not playing it safe. I'm so new to this world, so it's fun to establish myself as a fashionista.

Kelsea Ballerini

#2. Playing it safe is the most popular way to fail.

Elliot Smith

#3. You don't get great art by playing it safe.

Stewart Stafford

#4. To failure. Playing it safe requires that we avoid risky situations - which covers pretty much all of life.

Tara Brach

#5. Take some risks. Stop playing it so safe.

John Green

#6. Nobody got anything great by playing it safe.

Shonda Rhimes

#7. Living means taking chances. Risks. Playing safe all the time is being dead inside, even if you happen to still be breathing.

Ellen Hopkins

#8. I win by taking risks. By standing out. Mom hates how I ride Tucker right past the judge as many times as possible in a class. She says it's showboating and it's tacky. Some judges don't like it. Long ago, though, I decided I'd rather win being me than lose by playing it safe.

Carolyn Lee Adams

#9. Playing it safe is sometimes the most dangerous thing you can do.

Tony Cane-Honeysett

#10. More and more students are playing it safe and not taking any risks. You might not succeed, but that's just part of the game.

Walter Munk

#11. People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Josh Homme

#12. I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans.

Jill Shalvis

#13. Playing safe, hiding among the masses, will rarely get you noticed.

Fennel Hudson

#14. Do not be afraid to try something new. The cost of playing it safe all the time could far exceed the cost of daring to change.

Linda El Awar

#15. We're not just a band playing songs, we're a safe place to go forget your troubles.

Jaime Preciado

#16. We rarely hear warnings about playing it safe. We don't see headlines that say, ... Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.

Doug Sundheim

#17. The people who are playing it totally safe are never going to have either the fun or the reward of the people who decide to take some risk, stick out, do it differently.

John F. Akers

#18. Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.

Beyonce Knowles

#19. If you're the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you're that kind of person, you'll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#20. Changes don't happen in the world by playing it safe, taking risks is the way to change the world.

Zainab Salbi

#21. Playing it safe and tiptoeing through life is exhausting. Keeping all of your gifts trapped inside tires the crap out of you. It takes the same amount of effort to create something extraordinary as it takes to create something ordinary.

Lysa Mateu

#22. I'm just playing it safe. I'm staying as far away from the edge as possible, so I don't go plummeting off with a guy who may not even stick around long enough to help peel me off the ground.

Tracy Lane

#23. Some people say that you should not tempt fate and for them I cannot disagree, but I never learned anything from playing it safe. I say fate should not tempt me.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

#24. Life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.

Ellen Hopkins

#25. Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

Saurabh Sharma

#26. If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

Gail Sheehy

#27. In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

Camryn Manheim

#28. Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.

Tim Schafer

#29. Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail,

Elliott Smith

#30. What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?

Mark Batterson

#31. Playing it safe is the riskiest choice we can ever make.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#32. every 'no' is one step closer to a 'yes'. And I know that greatness was never achieved by playing it safe.

Linda Steinberg

#33. The whole world is desperate to listen to you when you find your unique voice. Your uniqueness that attracts people, not your playing safe.

Assegid Habtewold

#34. If you aren't making any mistakes, it's a sure sign you're playing it too safe.

John C. Maxwell

#35. Monochrome contentment or technicolor roller-coaster? No contest, is it?

Catherine Sanderson

#36. Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world

Stone Cold Steve Austin

#37. Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Robert Collier

#38. If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Woody Allen

#39. Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty

Jordan Belfort

#40. I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial.

Robin Thicke

#41. When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?

Richie Norton

#42. Take a risk. Take a fucking risk. If you keep playing it safe, you'll never know who you are -Josh

Stephanie Perkins

#43. I never want to feel that I'm playing it safe.

Christian Bale

#44. You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

Barbara De Angelis

#45. There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

E. M. Forster

#46. In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.

Jonathan Evison