Quotes About Risk

No jugamos a ganar, simplemente jugamos a no perder, y es esta mentalidad la que de verdad crea el juego. Nos obsesionamos en defender la idea de lo que somos en lugar de arriesgarnos a descubrir la imagen de aquello que podríamos llegar a ser.

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

Es muy posible que lo que le voy a decir le parezca una locura. Si es así, me lo dice nomás. Pero no quiero andar con rodeos: creo que estoy enamorado de usted.

La sencillez es una de las virtudes más complicadas de este viejo mundo. Cuando uno es sencillo (en su habla, en sus actos, incluso en su poesía) corre el incómodo riesgo de ser tomado por tonto, por babieca.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

The Regency was an age of hard gambling, and therefore it was more important than ever to keep the family finances afloat by marrying well.

Oh, I should like to ride the seas, A roaring buccaneer; A cutlass banging at my knees, A dirk behind my ear. And when my captives' chains would clank I'd howl with glee and drink, And then fling out the quivering plank And watch the beggars sink. I'd like to straddle gory decks, And dig in laden sands, And know the feel of throbbing necks Between my knotted hands. Oh, I should like to strut and curse Among my blackguard crew....

She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.

You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

For Chandler it was all or nothing. Or, to hear one of his characters say it, "I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.

You cannot build God's reputation if you aren't willing to risk yours.

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical

When did we start believing that God wants to send us to safe places to do easy things? That faithfulness is holding the fort? That playing it safe is safe? That there is any greater privilege than sacrifice? That radical is anything but normal? Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous.

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

The cure for the fear of failure isn't success. The cure for the fear of failure is failure in small enough doses that we build up an immunity to it.

In every dream journey there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. You have to go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.

What if you quit making excuses, quit playing it safe, and quit hedging your bets?

The genealogy of blessing always traces back to God-ordained risk.

We need to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

At the end of your life, your greatest regret won't be the things you did but wish you hadn't. Your greatest regret will be the things you didn't do but wish you had.

Jesus didn't die to keep us safe. He died to make us dangerous.

When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.