Quotes About Risk

At the end of the day, in spite of the risks, do life with your people. They need to see you struggle and process your day-to-day walk with Christ. They need to see you desire community, and you need to see transformation take place among your community.

Jesus did not send us to declare the gospel only where people are responsive or where our witness is welcome. He did not expect us to be on mission to disciple peoples only where there is no danger or risk involved. He was unequivocal in His mandate to disciple the nations (peoples)—all of them!

To play it safe is the most risky decision we could make. To risk is the safest decision we can make with God. No matter the short-term implications, we must obey God with reckless abandon.

90 percent of heart patients who are told to change their lifestyle habits or die, choose death over change.

Mountaineering will never be a safe activity and would not be worth doing if it were.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.

All you need is a second in order to succeed or fail

Definition of laying: you get cut sooner or later.

On every birthday, when I wake, I now take out the old Nagan, load it with one bullet, spin the chamber and pull the trigger with the barrel in my mouth. I've cheated death nine times. It is my greatest achievement. And three months to go to my next birthday. I can't wait.

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

I have discovered that even the mediocre can have adventures and even the fearful can achieve.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

How over that same door was likewise writ,Be bold, be bold, and everywhere Be bold.

To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.