Quotes About Risk

The fear-filled cannot love deeply. Love is risky. They cannot give to the poor. Benevolence has no guarantee of return. The fear-filled cannot dream wildly. What if their dreams sputter and fall from the sky? The worship of safety emasculates greatness. No wonder Jesus wages such a war against fear.

At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear.

The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans. Paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

When safety becomes our god, we worship the risk-free life. Can the safety lover do anything great? Can the risk-averse accomplish noble deeds? For God? For others? No. The fear-filled cannot love deeply. Love is risky. They cannot give to the poor. Benevolence has no guarantee of return. The fear-filled cannot dream wildly. What if their dreams sputter and fall from the sky? The worship of safety emasculates greatness. No wonder Jesus wages such a war against fear. His

We fear saying the wrong thing or using the wrong tone or acting the wrong way. So rather than do it incorrectly, we do nothing at all.

If I'm not saved by my works, then why work? If I'm not saved by the law, then why keep the law? If I'm not saved by what I do, then why do anything?" You've got to admit, grace is risky. There is the chance that people will take it to an extreme. There is the possibility that people will abuse God's goodness.

Queremos seguridad, pero lo único seguro es la falta de ella.

II y a deux sortes de gens. Il y a ceux qui vivent, jouent et meurent. Et il y a ceux qui ne font jamais rien d'autre que se tenir en équilibre sur l'arête de la vie. Il y a les acteurs. Et il y a les funambules.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.

Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything – everything.

You are going far in this world, baby, because you dare to risk everything. That's what you have to do. You are prepared to do the best you know to do. And if you don't succeed, you also know all you have to do is try again.

Hadn't I, always, but ever and ever, thought that life was just one great risk for the living?

Don't lose what you had to get something which just may not work.

Ma vie a été longue, et sachant que la vie chérit ceux qui la vivent, j'ai osé tout tenter, tremblante parfois, mais osant, néamoins

You've been a hard worker—white, black, Asian, and Latino women ship out of the San Francisco port because of you. You have been a shipfitter, a nurse, a real estate broker, and a barber. Many men and—if my memory serves me right—a few women risked their lives to love you. You were a terrible mother of small children, but there has never been anyone greater than you as a mother of a young adult.

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There is a time in every man's life when he must push off from the wharf of safety into the sea of chance.

Hadn't I always, forever and ever, thought that life was just one great big risk for the living?

Taking the leap felt appropriate. Only it wasn't just a short hop. It was a full plunge off a cliff.