Quotes About Risk

It takes a Bigger Courage to take on Danger, where None can be Sighted.

It was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to.

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth

That when you have something important to do, you should simply do it. Because fear is a useless emotion that doesn't change anything." She rested her cheek against his chest. "And life is too short and too precious to spend any of it being afraid.

The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

Through the thick and thin of it all, it is with every harmless personal dare that I have found my greatest happiness.

Go for it. I did. I am. And I promise, I will. "Mistakes" or not, it's worth it.

When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt-you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it's crippling-like having your heart carved out.

She doesn't realize that she becomes so involved in him that she loses herself, and in the process, she risks losing him as well.

We will never accomplish anything worthwhile in life if we require the guarantee of success at the onset.

He put his hand over hers. "Am I a coward?" "Because you are afraid? No. Only fools are never afraid.

I'm afraid. Terrified." "As you should be. As am I. But don't forget, sir," She reached through the bars and took hold of his hands, her own hands steady, her gaze clear and calm. "That I am a queen upon this board. And I do not play to lose.

He felt as if he stood at the very top of a high cliff. Take a step back and all was safe and familiar. But going forward required a singular leap of faith—and he was a man of little faith, particularly when it came to himself. But he wanted her to look at him again as if he were full of possibilities. As if they were full of possibilities.

A woman who has nothing left to lose can prove dangerous.

The philosopher Heinrich von Kleist calls this "the gradual completion of thoughts while speaking." Von Kleist quotes the French proverb that "appetite comes from eating" and observes that it is equally the case that "ideas come from speaking." The best thoughts, in his view, can be almost unintelligible as they emerge; what matters most is risky, thrilling conversation as a crucible for discovery.