Quotes About Risk

This one's as pretty as a grass snake, but much more dangerous.

The world can be big, and stink, and it hurts if you fall off, but hey, it's worth trying, mostly, and what doesn't kill you…Well, it doesn't kill you.

His forehead glistened. He knew me, what I might do if he pushed too hard. Something was so important to him that he thought it was worth the risk; I would have to hurt him or listen.

Recklessness killed seers as surely as it killed gesiths.

Two risks, not one. But it was done.

Her mother couldn't read. Her mother hadn't noticed the signs of a bad winter. Cian wasn't even there. Hereswith was far away, and Fursey. She had taken a double risk and there was no one to help her.

Peretur laughed. Risk. Her whole life was risk. And now, today, with Nimuë at her side-and keeping food down-Peretur feelt she could slay a dragon.

Excitement is the product of facing something dangerous.

Bravery is relative. Perhaps it's the same with dreams.

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Just as dangerous as believing the desirable to be possible is believing the possible to be desirable. Sentimental utopias and automatisms of technology.

God ends up being a parasite in souls where ethics predominates. The religious life begins when we discover that God is not a postulate of ethics, but the only adventure in which it is worth the trouble to risk ourselves.

The surest ways of winning are more disastrous than any defeat.

I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

I did not know it but I was already coming up against one of the great pitfalls of the small operator—the almost insoluble problem of when to enter the market.

I want to be tested beyond my comfort zone. I don't want to be safe if it's more interesting to be dangerous.

Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.

Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Complexity is the main enemy of security.

Just because something's always happened in the past doesn't mean it will definitely happen in the future.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

Remember, it's not how fast you go in a Formula 1 car that injures or kills you – it is how quickly you stop.