Quotes About Risk

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous...

I buy when other people are selling.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?

Point is, you can whine about it, or you can give this thing a shot. Either you're in or you're out. Love is love - even if it's only for a little while, that beats never.

The free-lovers say: "Let us have the splendour of offering ourselves without the peril of committing ourselves; let us see whether one cannot commit suicide an unlimited number of times." Emphatically it will not work.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Poison. One of the greats.

Ninguém sabe o que vai acontecer amanhã ou na semana que vem. Não importa quanto sua vida seja segura e estabelecida, tudo pode mudar num piscar de olhos.

All life is 6 to 5 against.

I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Never argue with a gun-cutter, [...]

You don't find the things you're looking for if you don't break some rules. You have to walk in a few dark places on your own.

Hope waits but does not sit. It strains with eager anticipation to see what may be coming on the horizon. Hope does not pacify; it does not make us docile and mediocre. Instead, it draws us to greater risk and perseverance

Genuine trust involves allowing another to matter and have an impact in our lives. For that reason, many who hate and do battle with God trust Him more deeply than those whose complacent faith permits an abstract and motionless stance before Him. Those who trust God most are those whose faith permits them to risk wrestling with Him over the deepest questions of life. Good hearts are captured in a divine wrestling match; fearful, doubting hearts stay clear of the mat.

Ultimately we have nothing to fear. Jesus loves us, and he invites us to be confident in that love. As we seek to obey Him, we are not called to assess the risk involved and determine whether or not obedience will be beneficial or safe for us. We are simply called to trust and obey.