Quotes About Risk

There was a time, usually late in August, when summer struck the trees with dazzling power and they were rich with leaves but then became, suddenly one day, strangely still, as if in expectation and at that moment aware. They knew. Everything knew, the beetles, the frogs, the crows solemnly walking across the lawn. The sun was at its zenith and embraced the world, but it was ending, all that one loved was at risk.

The freedom she meant was self-conquest. It was not a natural state. It was meant only for those who would risk everything for it, who were aware that without it life is only appetites until the teeth are gone.

Vamos allá, arriesguemos nuestras vidas. Porque si tienen algún valor, es precisamente que no tienen ninguno.

Know your death stakes! This is going to be crucial in order for you to write your novel from the middle.

If you up your skill and take more chances, your odds of success increase.

Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

you might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and the angels are all in Heaven, but few of the fools are dead.

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

innocent enthusiasm and love can sometimes cause great dangers.

A Change in life will not always be the Best, but a try to take a Chance for a Better life will be never a Loss in our Life.

It was worth a try.

You looked pretty good out there," she said, smiling up at him. "A little like a tasty seal, but I didn't see any hungry sharks.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'Do one thing every day that scares you.' From now on, that's what we have to do.

I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.

It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.

I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.

If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk

You should have distinguished,' replied Anne. 'You should not have suspected me now; the case so different, and my age so different. If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here.

I am not one of those young ladies who are so daring to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.

Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to?

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.