Quotes About Risk

Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

Failure is looked down. But only a person who has tried, experiences failures. A person who tries nothing doesn't experience failure. In short, Failure is a blessing.

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say, 'Okay, you're not that good. You just reached the level here.' I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.

When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept.

Talking on a cell phone distracts motorists as much as having a blood alcohol level of .08%, and it's shockingly common. Some studies report that as many as 10% of drivers on the road are talking on their phones at any given moment. If your state has yet to ban cell phone use while driving, it's likely that it will in the near future.

There is not half so much danger in the desperate sword of a known foe as in the smooth insinuations of a pretended friend.

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one.

They worry because their brain is demanding closure on a specific issue. Their mind says, "This is how it must turn out for me to feel secure. And I must feel secure. Do I know for certain it will turn out this way?" It is as though they require a one-hundred percent guarantee that they will encounter zero risk. That is simply too much to ask of life.

By making the decision to accept the possibility of a negative outcome, you circumvent the requirement for absolute certainty of your future comfort and safety.

Uncertainty is the very essence of romance.

We are always afraid of the unknown.

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.

Getting invisible is fun, but it could be dangerous.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Their real freedom is not within the boundaries of security, but in the highroad of adventures, full of the risk of new experiences

he feared that the flame of a prayer lamp that illuminated the home could also set the house on fire.

Let those who are snake-charmers play with snakes; if harm comes to them, they are prepared for it. But these boys are so innocent, all the world is ready with its blessing to protect them. They play with a snake not knowing its nature, and when we see them smilingly, trustfully, putting their hands within reach of its fangs, then we understand how terribly dangerous the snake is.

A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.

Supermarket shopping had become a newly dangerous business, not to be undertaken on a whim, still less without a plan.

Another thing I don't want on my tombstone," Shane said. You have others?" Claire asked. He held up one finger. "I thought it wasn't loaded," Shane said. Second finger. "Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank." Third finger. "Killed over ice cream. Basically, any death that requires me to be stupid first.

It was possible, I had realised, to resist evil but in doing so you acted alone. You stood or fell as an individual. You risked everything in the attempt: it might even be the case, I said, that evil could only be overturned by the absolute sacrifice of self. The problem was that nothing could give greater pleasure to your enemies.

It was an interesting thought, that stability might be seen as the product of risk; it was perhaps when people tried to keep things the same that the process of decline began.