Quotes About Risk

Think of all the fabulous things that have happened in the world because someone has just done it-you know, just jumped off the cliff and worried about the dangers when it's all over.

Yet, personally, I would rather take the risk of living out God's power instead of reducing my experience in the Spirit down to something I can control.

We can't grow our faith on the deck of a ship. We can watch other water walkers, hear their stories and read their books, but ultimately, the only way we are going to grow our water-walking faith is to get out of the dang boat!

I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1 000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2 500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

It's safe to be in love with someone you know you'll never have. Nothing is really risked when you know you can't lose. He was a distraction, an excuse, and a friend. No more, no less.

They might have chosen to stay home in safety, but the true heroic deed was that they did not, even knowing the danger they faced.

Never assume the enemy is down and then turn your back on him. You will pay for it with your life.

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If you start rapping, I promise you I'll throw myself off this platform.

What woman wouldn't drop her whole life into a basket, plow into the dark, and run?

I love the thought of not knowing how things will turn out but the willingness to invest anyway.

I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. We knew the risks and took them anyway.

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave." - Grandpa Wolcott

With all the risks they were taking, love was probably the most dangerous choice of all.

Vianne didn't hesitate. She knew now that no one could be neutral—not anymore—and as afraid as she was of risking Sophie's life, she was suddenly more afraid of letting her daughter grow up in a world where good people did nothing to stop evil, where a good woman could turn her back on a friend in need. She reached for the toddler, took him in her arms.

There's nothing wrong with being scared...It happens to all of us. What's wrong is if we don't try things because we're afraid. We can't hide away from the things that scare us.

Love meant always being a little afraid.

I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

We may think there is a safe road. But that would be the road of death. Then nothing happens any longer – at any rate, not the right things. Anyone who takes the safe road is as good as dead.

The soul needs your recklessness, not your wisdom.

Naturally every investigator must document his findings as fully as possible, but he should also venture an occasional hypothesis even at the risk of making a mistake. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The problem with the gene pool is, that there is no life guard.

They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.