Quotes About Risk

We hold on to our pain, our loss, our rejections, like a kid with a favorite toy. Why take the risk? Why get involved? It's costly to let go of all the garbage we carry, the pain we've nursed like a colicky baby. That's why we reject the very thing we want most. We're afraid it might lead to something more, something good, and that's what we find downright uncomfortable.

Think about it. Everything of value in life involves risk.

Social isolation is the best-established, most robust social or psychological risk factor for disease out there. Nothing can compete.

Life is dangerous, but we're all brave, aren't we?

As pessoas querem fazer parte de algo maior, algo mais profundo do que elas próprias. Algo pelo qual valha a pena viver, valha a pena morrer. Algo tão maravilhoso que estão dispostas a correr o risco de serem chamadas loucas, o risco de nadarem sozinhas nas águas mais escuras, determinadas a mergulhar nas profundezas para encontrarem algo especial, algo que possa durar para sempre.

There is as much of a chance that it will implode and drag its trading partners down into the abyss with it as there is that it will embark on overseas military adventures.

To love is to risk the pain of loss. But it's a risk that's worth taking.

Living in Paris might kill her, but it was a good way to die.

How many wisely conceived projects have failed and will fail in the future! How many insane projects have succeeded and will succeed!

And he added that prudence in no way assured us of success but consoled us and excused us in failure.

Il y a de la folie à courir le hasard de devenir fou par vanité.

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

Write the unpublishable...and then publish it.

There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.

It's fear that makes an act courageous.

Feeling after God is dangerous business.

You do not want to be a noble person? She held her thumb and index finger close together. A little bit? He shook his head. I've gt nothing against noble people, I've just noticed they rarely live past forty. Neither do gangsters. True, he said, but we eat in better restaurants. (Live By Night - Dennis Lehane)

She leaps into dark waters and then complains about the depth but blames me for the leaping").

Joe knew what the nod meant-this was why they became outlaws. To live moments the insurance salesman of the world, the truck drivers, and lawyers and bank tellers and carpenters and realtors would never know. Moments in a world without nets-none to catch you and none to envelop you. Joe looked at Dion and recalled what he'd felt after the first time they'd knocked over that newsstand on Bowdoin Street when they were thirteen years old, We will probably die young.

It occurred to me that falling in love was like jumping off a cliff. You know it's gonna hurt like hell, but you do it anyway, hoping you'll sprout wings and fly. I was still waiting to see if I would plunge to an agonizing death or grow wings and soar.

The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love… the faith that you have – that's what's going to define your life.

Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success.

If I Am murdered en route it will have been well worth while!

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to act despite it.