Quotes About Risk

There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.

I don't make a point of ending up in jail. But if you try to put your hopes and beliefs for a better life into effect, arrest is sometimes a hazard.

We spend the next half an hour doing horrible things with our bodies. We line up and climb the first level of the scaffolding, holding on for dear life, and then we stand there on a three-foot narrow strip that is the ledge that hugs the wall, many of us shaking from a combination of terror and the abuse of previously unused muscle groups.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith. Fear is. Fear will not risk that even if I am wrong, I will trust that if I move today by the light that is given to me, knowing it is only finite and partial, I will know more and different things tomorrow than I know today, and I can be open to the new possibility I cannot even imagine today.

The opposite of faith is not doubt, but fear. Faith implies risk. I will cast my life on this possibility that God is for me. I do not have to have any proof except my own commitment. I do not have to claim complete understanding -- that is idolatry.

Biblical faith is not intellectual assent to a proposition. It is risking that God is worthy of trust.

I'm tired of sailing my little boat Far inside of the harbor bar; I want to be out where the big ships float — Out on the deep where the Great Ones are! … And should my frail craft prove too slight For storms that sweep those wide seas o'er, Better go down in the stirring fight Than drowse to death by the sheltered shore! — Daisy Rinehart

course, Child A who takes all the risk. If you're a public-spirited parent then you perhaps won't mind risking your child's health for the sake of the State. But it would be nice if they told you all this, wouldn't it? Maybe they don't because, deep, deep down, they rather suspect that most parents would be touched by unpatriotic reluctance when expected to risk their child's health for the sake of the nation (or, more accurately, our EU region).

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

Real courage comes from outfacing the danger.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I'm afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too. 'Is this scaring you, Tris?' 'No,' I croak. I clear my throat. 'Not really. I'm only…afraid of what I want.' 'What do you want?' Then his face tightens. 'Me?' Slowly I nod.

If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.

For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones.

A Finnish study found that the intake of smoked and salted fish increased risk of colon cancer by more than two and one-half times

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. You may not live forever, but the over-cautious may not live at all. Courage

No great man will ever succeed in life if they do not grind their teeth and take the most dangerous path for the attainment of an end.

A boy never outgrows his need for adventure. As mothers, we will need to develop a healthy balance when it comes to cultivating our sons' innate sense of adventure without overprotecting them in the process or, for that matter, not protecting them at all.

All right," Marcus said, like he was doing me a grave favor. "But take it slow, sister. Any sudden moves and we'll drop you like a used-up ho on the corner of Fifth and Bridger.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

It ain't brave if you ain't scared.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

If there is one fatal flaw in this business, it is allowing isolated information to drive trading or investing decisions-committing money without understanding all the risks. And there is only one way to understand all the risks: through systematic knowledge.