Quotes About Risk

The dilemma is, in the United States, each penniless citizen believes that, with luck, he might become a millionaire; and so doesn't want to put restraints on "robber barons"—he might become one, one day!

He'd never risk his life if he could avoid it. "I'd rather live, thank you." In

Secrets! As a child you come to see the world's crisscrossed with them like electromagnetic waves, maybe even held together by them. But you can't know. Not, as kids say, for sure. And if you blunder by accident into a secret it's like you've pushed open a door where you thought was just a wall. You can look through, if you're brave or reckless enough you can even step inside—taking a chance what you'll learn is worth what it costs.

Sex is a drug, Eleanor had told me. When sex enters into a situation, people lose all reason. They do things they would never do otherwise. These things they do may be crazy. May even be dangerous. May break their hearts, or someone else's... The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

Experience gives us confidence, but we never get experience unless we step out and try things we have not tried before.

to fear is to run away from something due to an unpleasant emotion or feeling that we may suffer or be harmed.

Always living in the safe zone of life and never taking chances actually makes one a thief and a robber.

Puede atreverse a salir de su barca e ir hacia Él, y probar cosas nuevas y hacer cosas nuevas. Dios es Dios. Si comete un error, Él puede arreglarlo.

God doesn't want us to be gamblers. He wants us to be investors.

If we are not willing to risk what we have now, we will never find out what we could have.

Sí. Y tal vez no regrese. Así comenzaron todos. Que voy a ir aquí, que voy a ir más allá. Hasta que se fueron alejando tanto, que mejor no volvieron.

The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared. You look so macho clutching the door handle that way, he said to Hamilton. Just...be...careful, Hamilton said through clenched teeth.

I know that the chances for success are slim. [...] But odds are mathematical formulas calculated to give people a reason not to try.

March felt his stomach twist. "I don't like chances when I'm a hundred feet above the pavement.

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in, risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. And if you can't play, you can't win.

You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win.

You cannot outwit fate by placing little sidebets on the outcome of life. It's either you wade in and play in order to win or you don't play at all. - Matthew Farrell

Being brave doesn't mean you're never afraid. Being brave means that, even though you're scared, you still do what you should do.

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There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it-Judith McNaught

dope-pushers hang around there. But taking dope is even dumber than smoking, so nobody's going to hook me! We live on

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ANAÏS NIN

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. SENECA