Risk Quotes

“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.”
― Slash Coleman, Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir

“I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.”
― Bob Goff, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

“Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?”
― Slash Coleman, Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir

“How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what's the point in trying to have a life?”
― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Destiny

“If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.”
― Slash Coleman, Bohemian Love Diaries: A Memoir

“I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It is one of the [most] difficult of all... You see it's so immensely complicated. It needs real humility and at the same time, an absolute belief in one's own essential freedom. It is an act of faith. At the last moments, like all great acts, it is pure risk. This is true for me as a human being and as a writer. Dear Heaven, how hard it is to let go - to step into the blue. And yet one's creative life depends on it and one desires to do nothing else.”
― Katherine Mansfield, Letters and Journals

“It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness.”
― Cristina Nehring, A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

“Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.”
― Jon M. Huntsman Sr., Winners Never Cheat: Even in Difficult Times

“Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Some have won a wild delight,
By daring wilder sorrow;
Could I gain thy love to-night,
I'd hazard death to-morrow.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

“People play small for lots of reasons, but at the core of them all is fear. Playing small means playing safe—avoiding risk, failure, criticism, and the list goes on. But just imagine how incredibly different the world would be if everyone committed to playing big—taking on audacious goals, trying to make a meaningful difference, being all they could possibly be.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.”
― Alan W. Kennedy, The Alpha Strategies, Understanding Strategy, Risk, and Values in Any Organization

“The only crime of the Government is that it governs. The unpardonable sin of the supreme power is that it is supreme. I do not curse you for being cruel. I do not curse you (though I might) for being kind. I curse you for being safe!”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

“Some adventures should never be repeated.”
― Mike L. Hopper, Broken Point

“What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?”
― Jocelyn Murray, Corfe Castle

“Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“You've never been the safe, nice girl next door, despite everything you do to be that person. That's why you joined the I.S., and even there you didn't fit in, because, knowing it or not, you were a possible threat to everyone around you. People sense it on some level. I see it all the time. The dangerous are attracted by the lure of an equal, and the weak are afraid. Then they avoid you, or go out of their way to make your life miserable so you'll leave and they can continue deluding themselves that they're safe. (...) You got off on the risk.”
― Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms

“A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.”
― Erica Bauermeister, Joy for Beginners

“Kupata kitu ambacho hujawahi kupata lazima ufanye kitu ambacho hujawahi kufanya.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Walker and Timothy sat quietly for a very long time. “Why do so many people make it so hard for anyone to help them or to love them?” Walker asked finally.
Timothy chuckled. “Ah, Walker—if I could explain all of humanity’s foibles, I’d be a rich man indeed, at least as far as money goes. I believe people are like that because of fear. They fear being loved because they fear that if they’re loved, they’ll have to love back. And if they love back, they may get hurt. And many people aren’t ready to put their hearts on the line like that. Mostly because they don’t have anything to fall back on. It’s quite a shame, really, because they hurt themselves by trying to avoid getting hurt. But we have to be willing to die many times if we’re ever going to get on with this business of living.”
― Tom Walsh

“You would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. Those were the only choices.”
― Nicole Bernier

“Dreaming is risky. While only some dreams can put you at physical risk, all dreams require that you take an emotional risk. By their nature, dreams create a gap between your present reality and the reality you want to have, causing you to question whether you can bridge that gap. This risk alone can be so daunting for people that they prefer to leave their dreams in their childhood or buried away beneath layers of fear, doubt, and resignation. That’s why dreaming bigger dreams takes courage; it means risking the possibility that your dreams will not come true.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“Your “everybody” probably represents even a smaller proportion of the population than your Rolodex. Psychologists have documented that our typical everybody— to which they refer as the “generalized other”—is usually a collection of about five or six people.”
― Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!: Unleash Your Full Potential and Live the Life You Really Want

“...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.”
― Nate Silver

“We are always hungry and never satisfied because we don’t trust and won’t risk. Can we reach a place where we are satisfied with just enough? You are enough. You have enough. Do not worry about tomorrow. God will provide in our lives just as God provides in the Eucharist.”
― Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God

“I hate Risk. I have for many years now. I hate that you still like Risk. I hate that you guilt me into playing with you because no one else will. I hate that you do the accents of the countries you’re attacking from. And I hate that you wear a beret every time we play. God, do I hate the beret.”
― Colin Nissan