Quotes About Risk

If you don't take risks, you'll regret it. Because if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

When life pushes you to the edge, you have two options: fear the fall, or enjoy the view.

When life pushes you to the edge, you have two options: fear the fall, or enjoy the ride.

It's better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing. Because if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Believe, Wonderful things will happen to you when you step into the unknown

If you're going to do foolish things, do them with enthusiasm.

Marriage." is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging.

Only I can live my life, and be crazy enough to live a little.

How many great things could happen to you by confronting the things that scare you most.

No one sees your strength, do they? No one sees the silent battle you fight against your overprotective mind that's trying to keep you safe from harm by keeping you safe from risk, safe from connection, safe from honesty. Maybe others don't see, but you see it sometimes, don't you? You are strong. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise—especially not your thoughts.

You will do foolish things in life. And more foolish not to take delight in it while you have it.

I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than die not making any mistakes at all.

Sometimes I'll make a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible.

the task is not to find the object115 but to live the journey, with passion, and risk, and commitment, and danger.

If we are not willing to risk all, again, then we are precluded from intimacy.

If you want to cure a neurosis, you have to risk something."2

My Shadow was not evil; it was the defense against being myself, my own—apparently risky, apparently too costly—self.

Notice how shame, consciously or unconsciously, pulls us away from risk, ratifies our negative sense of worth through self-sabotage, or compels us into frenetic efforts at overcompensation, grandiosity, or yearning for validation that never comes. How much each of us needs to remember theologian Paul Tillich's definition of grace as accepting the fact that we are accepted, despite the fact that we are unacceptable.

Is it really worth it to die, to be dead, just to prove to everybody that you're not a coward?

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend. —I will take the risk, said Stephen. —And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had.

It is like looking down from the cliffs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.