88 quotes found
“Fortune sides with him who dares.”
“We only have one life (unless youre a cat or a Buddhist) and its often dictated to us by what society tells us we should do. So we normalize and accept the paradox. We glamorize busy, but long to t...”
“The price of success is the risk of self-esteem.”
“Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she wont suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But...”
“The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.”
“I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dangling, and with a steel knife claw a rent in the top, peep, and, if I must, fall.”
“There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.”
“It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.”
“To win without risk is to triumph without glory.”
“If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.”
“When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand...”
“Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You ...”
“If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
“To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.”
“All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.”
“The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate. The actions we dare to take, which depend on how free we are to m...”
“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.”
“Blind risk is stupid, but calculated risks are worth taking.”
“A surprise visit? That's so romantic...but fairly risky." "If you don't take any risks, life will bass you by," Cunco shipped in.”