Quotes About Risk

Be brave. Without bravery, you will never know the world as richly as it longs to be known.

El miedo es aburrido

Some anthropologists argue, in fact, that the human species needs infatuation as a reproductive tool in order to keep us reckless enough to risk the hazards of pregnancy so that we can constantly replenish our ranks.

Without it, you will never push yourself out of the suffocating insulation of personal safety and into the frontiers of the beautiful and the unexpected.

Those girls are on the road to trouble, I heard an older woman say about us one night, as we were staggering down the street drunk - and that woman was absolutely right. What she didn't understand, though, is that trouble is what we wanted.

this method? Yeah, sure. It works great. Till it kills you.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Bravery means doing something scary.

It isn't always comfortable or easy—carrying your fear around with you on your great and ambitious road trip, I mean—but it's always worth it, because if you can't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

Why It's Worth It It isn't always comfortable or easy—carrying your fear around with you on your great and ambitious road trip, I mean—but it's always worth it, because if you can't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

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I don't want you hurt," he said gruffly. "I know." Her smile was winsome. "But falling isn't the end of the world. I may fall, it's true—in fact, I probably will fall—but really, one can't live without falling now and again.

Life´s a gamble, honey. The only guarantee is that nobody gets out alive.

Run while you can, Cat. With every breath you take, this pirate is becoming less willing to let you go.

Delay also has consequences," Kieri said. "Haste brings one set of hazards; delay, another.

Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

They will have difficulties to overcome,' I admitted. 'Including the differences in their religions. However, marriage is always a chancy business, Katherine. I have known individuals who appeared perfectly suited, by family background, religion, and nationality, who were thoroughly miserable.' 'So you believe in taking the chance?' 'Certainly. What is life without some risk?

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk—to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Thus does good fortune follow on the steps of the reckless. If

Of course, not every kid has the same risk of becoming a victim. A large number of those gun deaths occur in poor neighborhoods.

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

Do I have to recite any further risks you have taken? How much you have not conformed? How much internal bravery this implies?

It is as well to be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or hell which way to fall.