Quotes About Risk

What is it in young boys that makes them want to wander off alone and get killed? They get two chin hairs and they're trying to prove they're men.

Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary.

That way they don't have to risk going outside where things are so dangerous and crazy. It's bad enough that some people—my father for one—have to go out to work at least once a week. None of us goes out to school any more. Adults get nervous about kids going outside.

People who are intelligent, ambitious, and at the same time, in the grip of odd obsessions can be dangerous.

People who are intelligent, ambitious, and at the same time, in the grip of odd obsessions can be dangerous. When they occur, they inevitably upset things.

Different is threatening to most species," Nikanj answered. "Different is dangerous. It might kill you. That was true to your animal ancestors and your nearest animal relatives. And it's true for you." Nikanj smoothed its head tentacles. "It's safer for your people to overcome the feeling on an individual basis than as members of a large group. That's why we've handled this the way we have.

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

LIFE BEGINS AT THE END OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you to the butcher tomorrow

Beanie Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

No. No risk, no failure. And without failure you're not really human. You're just skating on the surface of life.

It's just like what they say about lightening; It's safest to stand where it has already struck.

I realized that—in spite of all the risks involved—a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.

Standing there on the embankment, staring into the current, I realized that – in spite of all the risks involved – a thing in motion will always be better than a thing at rest; that change will always be a nobler thing than permanence; that that which is static will degenerate and decay, turn to ash, while that which is in motion is able to last for all eternity.

The world is quite a perilous pilgrimage for those who sigh after eternity,

To aim at erxcellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

Very often, the things that you're most afraid of, are the things that you really just need to go for it.

Dance like no one is watching; email like it may one day be read aloud in a deposition.

And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud.