Quotes About Risk

To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than doom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

Fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already loss.

The question then is how to get lost. Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction, and somewhere in the terra incognita in between lies a life of discovery.

Las mujeres entre los quince y los cuarenta y cuatro años tienen más posibilidades de morir o de ser lesionadas o desfiguradas debido a la violencia masculina que debido al cáncer, la malaria y los accidentes de tráfico juntos»

Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal...

Spouses are also the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the United States.

Being male has been identified as a risk factor for violent criminal behavior in several studies, as have exposure to tobacco smoke before birth, having antisocial parents, and belonging to a poor family.

Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuity. To be hopeful is to take on a different persona, one that risks disappointment, betrayal, and there have been major disappointments in recent years.

The alligators can get you at any age, Buddy. But the worst thing you can do is freeze.

You can't let fear of hurricanes stop your from putting seeds in the ground, even if they're going to grow tall only to be destroyed.

I don't care what the fire department says about fire hazards. I have lived through fire before.

What a gamble it is to have children!

Hány fiatal tett magáévá a La Concha öltözÅ'kabinjaiban annak a kétségbeesett tudatában, hogy a pillanatnak kell élni, ami talán soha nem tér vissza, mert bármikor megjelenhetnek a rendÅ'rök, és letartóztathatnak mindannyiunkat.

How often on an expedition have I told myself, That's enough! and then a few weeks later when the effort, worry, and hardship were forgotten, I began dreaming about a new journey, planning a new climb. Pretty soon I'd be off again. And once again, it would be dangerous. I never intended to risk my neck, but I knew that if I were ever to stop dreaming or traveling I would be old. And that would drive me to despair.

None of those climbs, including my own, match what Mallory and Irvine did in June 1924. Mallory who gave the mountain a spirit that cannot be captured with radio or telephone equipment, nor seen with telephoto lenses or satellite pictures. Daring to attempt the impossible, risking everything for a dream, and refusing to capitulate in the face of adversity, Mallory, to me, personifies heroism.

Tour operators and professional guides, more concerned with profit than with safety, have turned a spiritual quest into a cold-blooded accomplishment. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic, everyone knows the price of the highest peak in the world, and no one knows its value.

Wild tehdy nevÄ›dÄ›l nic. A to nic naplnil vírou.

Und so wie die Freiheit in unserer Gesellschaft an Strahlkraft zugunsten der Sicherheit verliert, ist es auch mit dem Abenteuer. Vielleicht sind wir Menschen so wenig frei wie unsterblich. Unfreiheit aber lässt sich abschütteln, teilweise wenigstens, wenn wir die Freiheit zur Selbstbestimmung wagen.

jede freie Entscheidung als Fehlentscheidung herausstellen kann, bei Grenzgängen oft mit tragischen Folgen.

I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.

Fear never keeps anyone safe

Fear is the gatekeeper of your comfort zone

Freedom equals your capacity to live in the unknown