Quotes About Risk

Come," [Jesus] said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. MATTHEW 14:29

Being brave meant that though you might be frightened, you would face the greatest danger if you knew it was the right thing to do.

If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work. Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.

Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer." Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

A certain amount of risk is inevitable, whatever we do, and I cheer myself up in difficult times with the statistic that most accidents happen in the home.

You wanted to live inside the lines where the ordinariness of everything would protect you from the dragons that lay at the edge of the map ready to blow fire in your face if you strayed off course, to the edge of the known world.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Darling, the composer has stepped into fire.

Death, with one-eyed jack in his hand, makes a promise to the thirteenth child.

He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.

She threw herself eagerly into the paths of unsuitable men.

She was blissfully unaware of her peril.

All art requires courage.

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

Ladders were not inherently dangerous, he told himself, people climbed them every day, and most of them lived.

The average life expectancy of a fighter pilot was no more than fifty to sixty flight hours.

Ja, liebe Klara: Es ist sehr, sehr gefährlich, auch nur einen Tag zu leben.

The peril was pressing; the menace unmistakable. The

friendship... it's such a leap of faith

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral...But I won't have it. The world is wilder than that in all directions, more dangerous...more extravagant and bright. We are...raising tomatoes when we should be raising Cain, or Lazarus.