Quotes About Risk

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Perhaps we have to learn that life was not meant to be lived in security but with adventurous courage

Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: "Take a job that will give you security, not adventure." But I say to the young: "Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

Obviously, it requires effort to use all your potentialities to the best of your ability, to stretch your horizon, to grasp every opportunity as it comes, but it is certainly more interesting than holding off timidly, afraid to take a chance, afraid to fail.

Do one thing every day that scares you."-Eleanor Roosevelt 6/3/17

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

I love to fly. I always wanted to fly. It's been one of my dreams since I was 3 years old. I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, 'I can fly!' Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

She was like that, she threw things off balance just to see if she could put them back in some other way.

Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life. I understood suddenly why I hadn't had Nino, why Lila had had him. I wasn't capable of entrusting myself to true feelings. I didn't know how to be drawn beyond the limits. I didn't possess that emotional power that had driven Lila to do all she could to enjoy that day and that night. I stayed behind, waiting.

Cuántas palabras permanecen sin pronunciar incluso en una pareja que se ama, y qué elevado es el riesgo de que otros la destruyan pronunciándolas.

The balcony extended over the void like a diving board over a pool.

Se uno non prova, non cambia niente

Todas las cosas del mundo pendían de un hilo, eran puro riesgo, y quien no aceptaba arriesgarse acababa deteriorándose en un rincón, sin confianza en la vida.

Eu nu cheltui o lira daca nu cred ca pot sa scot o suta.

Quante parole restano impronunciabili anche all'interno di una coppia che si ama, e com'è elevato il rischio che altri le pronuncino distruggendola.

É preciso esconder tudo deles, dos homens. Preferiam não saber, preferiam fazer de conta que o que acontecia em seus ambientes por algum milagre não ocorreria com a mulheres ligadas a eles e que - esta era a ideia que os acompanhara desde a infância - deviam proteger mesmo correndo o risco de serem assassinados.

I've never been in analysis. But it's rare that one saves oneself from a rickety landing at the top of a building by throwing oneself down the stairwell.

Quantas palavras permanecem impronunciáveis mesmo entre um casal que se ama, e como é alto o risco de que outros o destruam ao revelá-las.

Literary genres are safe areas, solid platforms. There I can place a pale sketch of a story and practise with calm, wary pleasure. But really I am waiting for my brain to get distracted, to slip up, for other I's — many — outside the margins to join together, take my hand, begin to pull me with the writing where I'm afraid to go, where it hurts me to go, where, if I go too far, I won't necessarily know how to get back.

Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.

It torments you to know you were misunderstood, to not have risked yourself, and to wait.