Risk Quotes

Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.

~ H.c. Paye

It's just something I'll have to live with... The possibility of getting sick. Not knowing if I'll live another two years or forty years. I keep telling myself, I could walk outside and get hit by a bus. That's the way life is. Just surviving another day comes with its own risk.

~ Tess Gerritsen

If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Fear is elemental to every human endeavour involving risk and change, which includes ALL creative endeavours. To be creative is to be anxious. To endure the anxiousness - to face it and work with it, to allow it to lay bare what has been hidden - is the beginning of faith, which, in a certain sense, is the courage to become, to become present, along with all the other characters, tribes and audiences whose actions move the unfolding drama that is the world.

~ Billy Marshall Stoneking

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

~ Jeff Bezos

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive borrowing – when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

~ George Friedman

Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.

~ Sarah Dessen

Did if feel like jumping off a cliff when he kissed you? I imagine it did.

~ Na

...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite the unlikely odds, we still worry about being raped or murdered. We hear a sound in the night and think of burglars, not mice... It's kind of a protective pessimism: if we worry about the worst happening, it may miss our door.

~ Ruth Dugdall

Change will force you to step off the path, to venture from the nest, to close your eyes and dive right in, knowing that the greatest opportunities in life are found in the sink or swim, do or die moments.

~ Stella Payton

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

~ Criss Jami

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

~ Plutarch

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

~ Donald Miller

Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.

~ Bryant Mcgill

This solidarity business I used to talk about ain't just--what do you youngsters call it?--theoretical. It means putting your body, your physical self, on the line, baby girl. Even when--especially when--it ain't convenient.

~ Thrity Umrigar

I tell you not to be timid. I tell you to make the choices, make the mistakes, big, terrible, reckless mistakes, really screw it all up. I tell you it is the only way.

~ Jandy Nelson

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

~ John Piper

Being safe doesn't mean you won't be sorry.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second.

~ Holley Gerth

One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

~ Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving death itself, the fugitive voluntarily threads his way back to the terrors and perils of that dark land, that he may bring out his sister, or mother, or wife.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Some have won a wild delight,By daring wilder sorrow;Could I gain thy love to-night,I'd hazard death to-morrow.

~ Charlotte Brontë

No matter how big the risk will be, you're willing to do anything, to get what you want or save yourself.

~ Ebelsain Villegas

We stand the risk of stagnation, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Without a degree of risk, there is little chance for the enormous mixture of relief and achievement that follows in its steps. It is the leap that goes on to support even greater attempts at the seemingly impossible challenges that the world often uses to sort the men from the boys, and of course, the women from the girls!

~ Graham Kerr

Freedom, inefficiency, and prosperity are not in it frequently found together, and it is seldom easy to distinguish between the first two.

~ Edmund S. Morgan

Never go into venture capital if you want a peaceful life.

~ Georges F. Doriot

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

~ Robert Kurson

There is no way to peace along the way of safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture. It can never be safe. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to mistrust, and this mistrusts in turn brings forth war.

~ Megan Mckenna

Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies.

~ Eduardo Galeano

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

~ Mark Batterson

Everyday take one optimistic calculated risk to find out how far you can go.

~ Debasish Mridha

Many have said, “Follow my steps” I say to you, create your own paths, and follow no one, live, risk it all, die and be free.

~ Quetzal

Isn't it the task of the Holy Spirit to introduce some madness and intoxication into the world? Why this propensity for balance and safety? Don't we all long for one moment of raw risk, one moment of divine madness?

~ Ron Rolheiser

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.

~ Kristin Cashore

A careless risk undertaken thoughtlessly or in pursuit of a thrill is recklessness, but a hazard confronted for the glory of God is a different matter altogether.

~ Hal And Melanie Young

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

~ Ryan Lilly

Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn’t work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith.

~ D. Nicole Williams

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day.

~ Jeff Bezos

I recalled with some discomfort that the man driving the vehicle had invented the sport of volcano boarding, presumably as a way of solving, in one deft move, the problems of the insufficient riskiness of both snowboarding and hanging out on the slopes of active volcanoes. Although I was not sure that I wanted to live forever, I was sure that I didn’t want to go down in a blaze of chintzy irony, plunging into a ravine strapped into the passenger seat of a thing called the Immortality Bus.

~ Mark O'connell