Quotes About Risk

Testing yourself means relinquishing the things you believe have so far kept you safe or comfortable

Difficulty, solitude, and risk are the three things that all rites of passage have in common. It's because putting ourselves in situations where we must do hard things that scare us without anyone there to intervene pushes us beyond what we previously thought ourselves capable of. It expands our perception of our own courage, strength, and endurance. It forges us out of who we were before into the person we will become.

If you take that risk, if you take that chance, if you tell the truest, hardest, deepest story you have within you, you're not going to step into the light and find that you're there alone. That you're going to be surrounded by people who are there with you.

Each and every one of those people rose at a moment in their lives - one that is very much like this moment in your life, "suffocated" and at that moment they chose to tell the truth about themselves instead of staying "safe" inside the lie.

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies?

Lucas had guessed correctly that there was no danger of anyone hijacking a flight from Oakland to Tucson International, anyway. That would take a real nut.

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

Government employees are the lowest risk-takers on earth.

Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. "Feel that?" His throat worked as he swallowed. "It would break if I fell for you and anything happened that would take you away from me." --Zane to Willow in 'The Edge of Sin' in the Real Men Last all Night anthology

Life's too short for mild salsa.

Skiing is the only sport in which you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg.

...if I lose at play, I blaspheme, and if my fellow lose, he blasphemes, so that God is always sure to be a loser.

Most sports need only one ball — skydiving takes both!

Statistics is a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

Love is a four-letter word.

Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.

Love is giving someone the ability to destroy you — but trusting them not to.

All mushrooms are edible — but some only once.

Some of the United States Senators seem to fear they are not popular enough to risk election by popular vote.

Courage in war is safer than cowardice.

If there's a 50/50 chance that a forecast will go wrong, nine times out of ten it will.

Wine has drowned more men than the sea.

The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Just about a month from today I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.