Quotes About Risk

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear, the moving out against the resistance engendered by fear into the unknown and into the future.

If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [...] - all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

But while all fear is not laziness, much fear is exactly that. Much of our fear is fear of a change in the status quo, a fear that we might lose what we have if we venture forth from where we are now. In the section on discipline I spoke of the fact

The ancients had instincts and abilities that are lost to civilization today. Magic was real. It lived inside the shamans. Inside the priests. They passed it on from generation to generation. You have the dregs of that power in you. It it not the strength that it was, but you can access it. But to do so you must be willing to travel deep into your own darkness and be open to risk. To pull from the earth's energy.

Quem escapa do perigo vive a vida com outra intensidade.

Bilgi prensler yaln?zca varolan sorunlar? deÄŸil gelecekte ortaya ç?kabilecek sorunlar? da dikkate al?rlar ve her türlü çabay? göstererek bunlar? önlemeye çal???rlar çünkü sorunlar önceden görüldüÄŸünde çareleri kolayca bulunur ama kap?ya dayanmalar?n? beklersen hastal?k art?k iyileÅŸtirilemez hale geldiÄŸi için ilaç çok geç kalm?? olur

Fortune is an impetuous thing that tends to favor the audacious

unutmamak gerekir ki yeni bir düzen getirmeye kalk??maktan daha zor, baÅŸar? olas?l??? daha kuÅŸkulu, yönetilmesi daha tehlikeli bir ÅŸey yoktur; çünkü eski düzenden ç?kar? olan herkes yeni düzeni getirene düÅŸman kesilir, yeni düzenden ç?kar? olabilecek kiÅŸiler ise ancak ?l?ml? birer müttefiktir.

It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to handle, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes in a state's constitution. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new.

Only a fool is not afraid.

To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

Love, she insisted, is not power, which she considered always coercive. To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, even if we fear that the road may take us through danger and pain.

Don't be afraid to be afraid.

In moments of decision, we are to try to make what seems to be the most loving, the most creative decision. We are not to play safe, to draw back out of fear. Love may well lead us into danger. It may lead us to die for our friend. In a day when we are taught to look for easy solutions, it is not always easy to hold on to that most difficult one of all, love.

Jump right in, or wade in slowly. Advantage to one, it's over quickly. Advantage to the other, it isn't.

they were not really afraid. They were just afraid of being afraid.

The kinds of errors that cause plane crashes are invariably errors of teamwork and communication.

The truth is that we are drawn to the Niederhoffers of this world because we are all, at heart, like Niederhoffer: we associate the willingness to risk great failure — and the ability to climb back from catastrophe — with courage. But in this we are wrong.

the trade-off between truth-default and the risk of deception is a great deal for us. What we get in exchange for being vulnerable to an occasional lie is efficient communication and social coordination. The benefits are huge and the costs are trivial in comparison. Sure, we get deceived once in a while. That is just the cost of doing business.

This one adult could have died from AIDS with little notice....He could have transmitted the virus to his wife and offspring. His infected wife (or girlfriend) could have given birth in a Swedish barrack to a child who was HIV infected but seemingly healthy. Unsterilized needles and syringes could have spread the virus from child to child.

a radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.