Quotes About Risk

Anyone who stands up in front of other human beings to speak knows what a frightful gift it is. This power of ours has no safety catch on it. We are as likely to make nothing out of something as the other way around.

if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got. Extreme measures are sometimes called for, and these measures sometimes even produce results.

Most of us prefer to remain on our cow paths, where we know the language and we do not need maps because we know the way by heart. Some of us even stay behind our own fences because we do not want to be mistaken for interlopers in other people's pastures

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

It is not the easy or convenient life for which I search, but life lived to the edge of all that I may be." — Mary Anne Radmacher

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara De Angelis

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

many of us cower at the edge of that psychological boundary and abort our soul's adventure.

You must get hurt a lot," he murmured. She looked at him in surprise. "Why do you say that?" "Because you don't hide anything. You put yourself out there for the world to like or dislike.

of him going back into that fire.

she was crazy, and her mother Joanna just wanted her to stop challenging Mother Nature by running headlong into dangerous storms. But like her dad, Alicia didn't run away from storms; she ran toward them. While

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Codi: Gives you the willies, doesn't it? The thought of raising kids in a place where the front yard ends in a two-hundred-foot drop? [referring to cliff dwellings] Loyd: No worse than raising up kids where the front yard ends in a freeway.

I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.

When we grow older we lack the fine courage of youth, and even an ordinary task like making a pullover for somebody we love or used to love seems too dangerous to be undertaken.

By nature and avocation, Charlotte looked for trouble.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Feel the Fear. Have the Doubts. Go for It Anyway.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Life is too short to be so circumspect.

You do not put off things because they threaten you, because you are afraid; It was a rule of life.

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.