Quotes About Risk

In the worship of security we fling ourselves beneath the wheels of routine-and before we know it our lives are gone.

To be truly challenging, a voyage,like a life,must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine traverse.

I've always wanted to sail to the south seas, but I can't afford it." What these men can't afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the cancerous discipline of "security." And in the worship of security we fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine - and before we know it our lives are gone.

I used to be a heavy gambler. But now I just make mental bets. That's how I lost my mind.

Hey, Dad, check this out!" Ike stared at the boy. He clearly wanted to be down there watching his kid possibly crack his skull open, rather than recording a song about how frightened he was that his kids might crack their skulls open.

plunges back into the aquarium, barely missing the half-inch steel cable still dangling from Jonas's hand.

Ebb and flow … risk and reward … life and death?such was the balance of nature.

Jonas knew Masao was right; he had to face his fears and return to the trench. If a white Megalodon tooth could be found, it would justify seven years of research. If not, so be it. One way or the other, it was time to get on with his life.

I dare to fail greatly so that I may achieve greatness.

To be truly successful, you must be willing to assume risk.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

It's true that the early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Do patnácti let v?ku umírají (chlapci) t?ikrát ?ast?ji než d?v?ata, a to z nejr?zn?jších p?í?in - ale nejvíce následkem úrazu, násilí a pokusu o sebevraždu.

Všechno to, co je no?ní m?rou rodi?? (riskantní chování, alkohol, drogy a trestná ?innost), se d?je proto, že nenacházíme zp?soby, jak by se mohla realizovat touha mladých muž? po sláv? a hrdinských ?inech.

Fear is overcome by doing what we fear to do. Action defeats fear, just as scissors cut paper.

The human system does not really want comfort, it wants challenge. It wants adventure.

All courageous people have fear. They just do things anyway

On your death bed, you will not wish you had been more comfortable, or that you had found an even easier, softer pleasure zone to hide out in. You will wish you had ventured out more. That you had spoken up more. Tried some things. Reinvented yourself one more time.

In their early briefings, Clarke's office described bin Laden as an "existential" threat to the United States, meaning that the danger he posed went beyond the dozens or hundreds of casualties al Qaeda might inflict in serial bombing attacks. Bin Laden and his followers sought mass American fatalities and would use weapons of mass destruction in American cities if they could, Clarke and officers at the CIA's Counterterrorist Center firmly believed.

That's the beauty of freedom Sam. You never know what happens next. And the only way to know how freedom works — — is to work at it.

He held to it in the way of a man who holds the string of a kite that is so high he can't see it anymore, knowing that any moment it may break and the only way he will know it has broken will be by the sudden ripple of the string as it dances slowly groundward.

Nobody is safe. Ever. Anywhere. I

So many people are missing their way in life because they are afraid to sign the lease on their gift.

Eighty-five percent of small businesses in this country fail within the first two years. Eight-five percent! That's a whole lot of failure. Warren Buffett said that he would not invest in any business where the owner hasn't failed at least twice. I love that truly wealthy and successful people understand that failure is part of the process.