Risk Quotes

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

~ William S. Burroughs

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

~ Erica Jong

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.

~ Gayle Forman

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them.

~ Mandy Hale

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

~ Bell Hooks

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.

~ Roy T. Bennett

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

~ Helen Keller

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

~ Joan Erickson

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

~ Thomas Moore

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

~ Susane Colasanti

Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck

~ Toba Beta

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

~ John A. Shedd

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

~ Paul Theroux

To save all we must risk all.

~ Friedrich Schiller

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

~ Criss Jami

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

~ Elaine May

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

~ Criss Jami

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)

~ Katherine Mansfield

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.

~ Toba Beta

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

~ Criss Jami

Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.

~ Sam Childers

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)

~ Steven James

The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.

~ Criss Jami

Every risk that you take in order for you to come into significance is the greatest kind of risk to take.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.

~ Toba Beta

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

~ Criss Jami

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

~ Criss Jami

Fear is not the end. But only a transition.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

With every dream and with every love, you have to die to the old, and be reborn to the new. You must leave what you know behind, and surrender to the unknown.

~ Dragos Bratasanu

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

~ Sarah Addison Allen

Because what’s lifeWithout happinessAnd where’s happinessWithout risk

~ Dennis Sharpe

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

~ William Faulkner