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Quotes About Risk

Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy.
~ T. Harv Eker
Feel the fear and do it anyway (Aunque sientas miedo, hazlo de todas formas)
~ T. Harv Eker
Samo oni koji rizikuju da odu predaleko mogu da otkriju dokle ?ovek zaista može da stigne.
~ T. S. Eliot
You have to risk going too far to discover how far you can go.
~ T. S. Eliot
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far can one go.
~ T. S. Elliot
To work magic is to dare. Finding our Divine Work in the world is a chance to risk what feels known. We must learn to trust intuition, and listen to the longing in our souls. To find your soul's work, follow your heart's desire.
~ T. Thorn Coyle
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man ( sic ) who has so much as to be out of danger?
~ T.H. Huxley
It's a chore for a fellow to fear for his life more than once in an evening.
~ T.R. Pearson
The argument for a lower tax rate on capital income—an argument supported by many economists—runs as follows: (1) economies need capital investment to grow and create new jobs; (2) capital investment by definition is risky (you could lose it all); and (3) therefore, a lower rate of tax on potential gains is necessary to encourage people to make those essential, but risky, investments.
~ T.R. Reid
Do I dare to eat a peach?
~ T.S. Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
~ T.S. Eliot
Nur diejenigen, die riskieren zu weit zu gehen, können überhaupt herausfinden, wie weit man gehen kann.
~ T.S. Eliot
Anything is possible, but many things are highly unlikely. Only those who will risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~ T.S. Eliot
And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?
~ T.S. Eliot.
Of course one can 'go too far' and except in directions in which we can go too far there is no interest in going at all; and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go. Not to go far enough is to remain 'in the vague' as surely and less creditably than to exceed
~ T.S.Eliot
And the poet who fears to take the risk that what he writes may turn out not to be poetry at all, is a man who has surely failed, who ought to have adopted a less adventurous vocation
~ T.S.Eliot
Fear goes where it is invited.
~ Tad Williams
But a mouse can be brave. Small as they are, though, they learn it is wiser not to challenge the cat.
~ Tad Williams
Los valientes y los locos a menudo viven en la misma cueva, decimos nosotros. Binabik
~ Tad Williams
Ah, yes. ''Errors of caution are more likely to be considered at leisure than errors of boldness – but less likely to be considered after a victory.'' In other words, if you are too careful, you are more likely to live, but less likely to win.
~ Tad Williams
We go into unknown places." "As do all mortals
~ Tad Williams
Buy a house in a foreign country and, it seems, that anything which can go wrong usually does.
~ Tahir Shah
Exploration is a dirty game.
~ Tahir Shah
As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
~ Tahir Shah