Quotes About Risk

I can make whatever choices I want in my life, and I will live with the consequences of those choices. But if I want to live a life close to my deepest desires, I have to risk knowing who I really am and have always been. Knowing this, then I can choose.

I want to live with deep intimacy every day of my life. I am guided, sometimes driven, by an ache to take the necessary risks that will let me live close to what is within and around me. And I am sometimes afraid that it will be too much, that I will not have, or be connected to, whatever it takes to be with it all, to bear the exquisite beauty and bone-wrenching sorrow of being fully alive.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for – and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool – for love – for your dreams – for the adventure of being alive.

Jamás debes evitar el riesgo, aunque el miedo te frene.

Sai la stessa paura che si prova all'inizio di un amore, quando l'intuito ci annuncia le sofferenze che esso ci costerà, e la prudenza ci induce a girarvi intorno senza accostarcisi troppo, ma è un girarvi a spirale, più vicino sempre più vicino, e sai bene che finirai per cadervi dentro: a pagare ogni istante di gioia con mille dolori.

Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.

In life, most people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

I would rather face my fears than lose, but most people would rather lose than face their fears.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

Every leader has the courage to make decisions. No decision is usually the worst decision.

If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you will have to change some things you've always avoided.

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

What do you think the path of your predecessors was, but the path of adventure?

Owning a business is a giant step to take.

Starting a business is one of the most exhilarating, and frightening, things you can do in a lifetime.

The risks are important to keep in mind, but they shouldn't necessarily stop you from pushing ahead with your idea.

To size up your readiness to take the leap into entrepreneurship, there are a number of questions to ask yourself.

Tolerating mediocrity is as dangerous as inviting failure

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.