Quotes About Risk

Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.

All art requires courage.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

The brave venture anything.

Anyone can die. It's living that requires courage.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.

That's what courage is. If she weren't scared, she wouldn't need courage in the first place." -Jo

Instead of antiquated notions of physical daring, courage is much more about making small choices to take initiative even when we are experiencing anxiety and facing risk.

I've always said it takes more courage to stand back there and throw a ball knowing you're fixing to get drilled than anything I can think of in football.

So much of starting a business or affecting change is the confidence and courage to simply try.

Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.

What part of me was born with the courage to stand in front of strangers and risk rejection?

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

The courage to try something new makes me proud.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.