Quotes About Risk

Sometimes its good to be bad because best memories come from bad ideas!

If you don't take chances, you'll never make advances.

There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

Life is like a game of poker, you are dealt a hand, and only you decide what to keep and what to throw away...

If you never take the chance to find out what could be, then you lose the chance to find out what would be.

Life is all about risks and it requires you to jump. Don't be a person who has to look back and wonder what they would have or could have had. No one lives forever.

Life is like a game, you can play it safe and be good, or you can take a chance and be great.

Life doesn't always give you second chances, so take the first one.

Life doesn't provide warranties and guarantees, it only provides possibilities and opportunities for those who dare to make best use of it.

Don't be afraid to take an unfamiliar path, sometimes they're the ones that take you to the best places.

We have to be fearless. We have to take chances. We can't live life just being afraid of what comes next. That's not what living is about.

If God sends you to the edge of a cliff, only two things can happen: either He will teach you how to fly or He will catch you.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

A good friend will tell you where to run when they see danger, but a best friend will run in danger to save you.

Don't be afraid of being hurt or judged by anyone, take a risk and be honest about who you really are. Be honest to yourself that your fear, dream, hope, disappointments, happiness and your luck in life is part of who you are and your destinies is right within you.

This was all the more dangerous in that my nature has always made me more open to the world of the possible than to that of real-life contingencies. This approach helps one to understand the human soul, but one runs the risk of being deceived by individuals.

Let us simply recall the wish to appear natural and forthcoming, the instinctive movement to conceal a secret lovers' meeting, a mixture of modesty and ostentation, the need to speak of what is so pleasant to ourselves and to show that we are loved, a partial understanding of what the other person already knows, or guesses, which, outrunning or falling short of his understanding, constantly over- or under-estimates it, the involuntary drive to take risks or to cut one's losses.

Pode-se ter inclinação por uma pessoa. Mas para desencadear essa tristeza, esse sentimento do irreparável, essas angústias, que preparam o amor, é preciso - e talvez isso e não a pessoa amada seja o ansiado objeto da paixão - o risco de uma impossibilidade.

Having a liking for someone is one thing; but to be afflicted with the sadness, the feeling of something irreparable having happened, the anguish which all accompany the onset of love, what is necessary is the risk – which may even be the object to which passion in its fretfulness tries to cling, rather than to a person – of an impossibility.

Pois como a medicina é um compêndio dos erros sucessivos e contraditórios dos médicos, recorrendo aos melhores destes, corre-se o risco de solicitar uma verdade que será reconhecida falsa alguns anos mais tarde. De modo que acreditar na medicina seria a suprema loucura se não acreditar nela não fosse loucura maior, pois desse amontoado de erros se desvencilharam com o tempo algumas verdades.

The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure.

there is a way of separating one's dreams from one's life which so often produces good results that I ask myself whether one ought not, at all costs, to try it, simply as a preventive, just as certain surgeons make out that we ought, to avoid the risk of appendicitis later on, to have all our appendices taken out when we are children.

What arrogance made us think we were far enough to be safe?