Quotes About Risk

freedom is only ever a fall without a net.

This, I came to understand, was what freedom tasted like. It wasn't a heady illusion in the safety of a time-shared bed, seeking the approval of the person whose heart you are breaking. It is being willing to have your own heart broken and not blaming the outcome on anyone. It is being an orphan, and love not being an obligation or prescription, but always a risky, transformative choice.

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do something you've never done before? There's only one way to find out.

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfying relationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for a marathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it.

The adventures of a lifetime begin with "Yes.

Go for it. It will make a great story.

Diving in IS testing the water.

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret.

Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream, and used the realization of that dream to enter a void with no guarantees. I didn't want financial struggle to be the sole outgrowth of the risks I had taken. More than money, I had put my belief systems on the line.

Perhaps, in some innocent encounter in China between a child and a bird, a new killer flu is on its way. Or perhaps, even now, a young man or a young woman has become infected with two different strains of flu viruses. They are mixing together in the person's lungs, their genes reassorting. Emerging from that witches' brew is a new virus, a chimera, that, like the 1918 flu virus, is perfectly suited for destruction.

Coke hyped you up, gave you the courage, if you lacked it, to pull a trigger. Heroin slowed you down. Down to a death crawl.

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

Ma il coraggio era anche quello. Era la consapevolezza che l'insuccesso fosse comunque il frutto di un tentativo. Che talvolta è meglio perdersi sulla strada di un viaggio impossibile che non partire mai.

El problema es que se puede diagnosticar un ataque de pánico muy a la ligera, con el consiguiente riesgo de llamar pánico a una crisis histérica, o a la ansiedad generalizada, o a una fase de angustia profunda o, peor aún, a una verdadera patología orgánica, con consecuencias a veces realmente funestas.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

El secreto para enriquecerse es pagar como si se fuese pródigo y vender como si se estuviese en vísperas de quiebra.

There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free.

The greatest denial of Truth is the belief that being vulnerable is dangerous.

Nada há de mais sábio do que apostar na loucura dos homens.

a inteligência não protege de nada, nem sequer da estupidez.

Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.