Quotes About Risk

I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like to be; I still direct more energy toward controlling and minimizing appetites than toward indulging them.

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

alea iacta est: 'the die is cast'.

Sometimes following God means throwing caution to the wind. Sometimes caution is a symptom of faithlessness.

Everyone who loves risks losing their heart every minute of every day.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

He did not want to go to his grave knowing he had risked nothing for the woman he wanted. He wasn't an ass, though. Or if he was, he did not wish to give her incontrovertible evidence of the fact. What to say to her, then, when he knew he was likely to speak too gruffly?

I just know that any time I undertake a case, I'm apt to run into some kind of a trap.

If I must die, then I will die boldly, as I have lived.

Perhaps, and this is where my breath catches in my throat, perhaps she let herself fall. The day was hers to choose and perhaps in that treetop moment when she looked down and saw the yard, the world, her life, spread out below her, perhaps she chose to plunge toward it headlong. Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose, instead, a single moment in the air.

Take a risk, take a prize.

I was playing for keeps and he was playing for fun.

I had in no way intended to risk my life. I just wanted to turn the sound down and smooth all of my sharp corners.

Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don't have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.

Giving your heart away before you are certain of a man's character and commitment is dangerous. You must discern his true intentions, or you'll pay a high price.

throw caution to the wind and just do it

hard work never killed anyone... but why take a chance?

Money might be the root of all evil, but two million in stolen cash was mainly a hernia risk.

Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

THE MAN WHO MAKES NO MISTAKES USUALLY MAKES NOTHING

Ace Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.

Nicky A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in' night.

Social scientists emphasize that people use the "availability heuristic," which means that we assess risks by asking whether a bad (or good) event is cognitively "available." It