Quotes About Risk

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

A genuinely political society, in which discussion and debate are an essential technique, is a society full of risks.

The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

We live in a litigious society, and that's the way it is. Better safe than sorry.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

Life begins where fear ends.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.

Courage Is a Love Affair with the Unknown

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

The notion of art as the dearly purchased outcome of an immense spiritual risk, one whose cost goes up with the entry and participation of each new player in the game.

If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games.