Quotes About Risk

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage assumes fear. If we had waited for our fear to subside before we took that first plunge off of the high-dive, we would all still be standing there waiting. We just jumped anyway. Courage is the willingness to strap on your fear and move ahead.

An unwillingness to accept risk has swamped more leaders than anything I can think of.

individual does. Here's the difference: Eventually a leader's lust for progress overwhelms his reluctance to take risks. In other words, failure to move things forward is the type of failure most feared by the leader. For the leader, failure is defined in terms of missed opportunities rather than failed enterprises.

often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

It has been shown many times that any organisation that loses access to its data for more than 10 days is very likely to go out of business.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

Hay que ser muy valiente para vivir con miedo. Contra lo que se cree comúnmente, no es siempre el miedo asunto de cobardes. Para vivir muerto de miedo, hace falta, en efecto, muchísimo valor.

He is on the point of becoming a revolutionary pornographer, but he, finally, lacks the courage.

If woman is man's greatest help, she is also his greatest danger.

The stakes—what your protagonist is risking—should increase in significance as the story progresses.

And thanks to all those brave men and women who risk their lives every day while serving in our emergency services.

When you fall in love, you have to play it out even if everyone calls you crazy. That's why they call it falling. We have no control over it.

Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger -Septimus Heap

My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate.

If you get caught with your pants down, take 'em off.

Get ready: The truth is too valuable to put safety first. Get set: No amount of exposure is unbearable unless you let it be. Go: If you get caught with your pants down, take 'em off.

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

It is perilous to live past the end of your myth

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.