Risk Quotes
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"She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water."
"If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul."
"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination."
"Never was anything great achieved without danger."
"In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk."
"Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."(Journal entry, 14 October 1922)"
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
"When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly."
"Fortune sides with him who dares."
"I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her."
"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this."
"To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse."
"The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk."
"True love is taking the risk that it won't be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, "I'm not afraid to believe in you."
"Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk."
"Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck"
"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -- justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner."
"Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but “safe” isn’t one of them."
"Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk."
"To save all we must risk all."
"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
"Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today."
"With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die."
"To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look."
"Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen."
"Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank."
"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."
"Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest."
"There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable."
"Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself."
"The Hot Air Balloon CharmLife Can Be Filled with Adventure If You Let Yourself Soar"
"People wishes their friends to be in politics, but their sons in professions."
"A careless risk undertaken thoughtlessly or in pursuit of a thrill is recklessness, but a hazard confronted for the glory of God is a different matter altogether."
"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."
"The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control."
"Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them."
"Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward."
"We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk."
Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
"Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out."
"Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn’t work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith."
D. Nicole Williams, Change Your Posture! Change Your LIFE!: The Passion Fruit of Purposed Pursuit
"The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.."
Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road
"Boundaries and risk management are very important parts of living a healthy and positive life."
Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
"Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it."
"After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is."
"The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you."
"Every risk that you take in order for you to come into significance is the greatest kind of risk to take."
"Fear is not the end. But only a transition."
"With every dream and with every love, you have to die to the old, and be reborn to the new. You must leave what you know behind, and surrender to the unknown."
"A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff."
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