Quotes About Risk

The second half is riskier because it has to do with living beyond the immediate. It is about releasing the seed of creativity and energy that has been implanted within us, watering and cultivating it so that we may be abundantly fruitful. It involves investing our gifts in service to others — and receiving the personal joy that comes as a result of that spending. This is the kind of risk for which entrepreneurs earn excellent returns much of the time.

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams." - Bob Proctor

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

All the great breakthroughs have been totally illogical. If you really want to live up to your potential and you're not trying to please everybody and his brother, set some goals that scare the daylights out of you.

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

What America needs more than political reform is political courage—candidates and politicians who are not afraid to risk losing the office they hold to accomplish the greater good. The Founders were not concerned about political survival; they worried about being hanged when they signed the Declaration of Independence. Yet they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause in which they believed so strongly.

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

Isn't the essence of adventure, be it big or small, the very idea that we might fail? Isn't it the tension that gives meaning to a story, the obstacles that steel us for the journey of life?

We dare to jump so we can see something new. And sometimes we do it to recover a sense of what we once had.

I salt my wounds, I chlorine my eyes; I am a self-destructive fool." There's caution here. And yet we dance near that line anyway, because there's something to see.

On the phone, it's about as intimate as it can get. The person's right in your ear. You got to be careful on the phone. You can leave yourself wide open

If you stop taking chances, you'll stay where you sit. You won't live any longer, but it'll feel like it.

don't scare you, they are not big enough.

Have you ever heard of the law of large numbers? If you carry on betting large sums day after day, then sooner or later you are bound to win everything back." As far

I read somewhere that it's called American roulette. It was invented in America, in the goldfields. You put a single shot in the cylinder, give it a twirl, and then—bang! If you're lucky you break the bank; if not, then it's good-bye

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

Some dangers are to be courted--courted and braved as a coy mistress is to be wooed, with all the more vigor as the day makes against us.

We would rather be sure of a correctly predicted negative outcome than face the realistic uncertainty of an unpredictable future even if it includes the possibility of great joy and success.

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

Haven't you ever played Uno?... Sometimes you have to lose all your cards to win.

Life is filled with trapdoors.

A family is a risky venture, because the greater the love, the greater the loss... That's the trade-off. But I'll take it all.