Risk Quotes

“Men are no longer what they used to be. Decaffeinated coffee. Vapes. Tandem skydiving. People want to indulge, seek pleasure, but don’t want to take the risks associated with the indulgence. Too much prosperity, stability, and rapid advancement in technology have rendered everyone spineless.”
― Abhaidev, Heaven's Gate

“Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means.”
― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

“Chirp of coward shouted in crowd,
dare to speak but not to be known.”
― Toba Beta

“Survival is not a skill as much as an instinct… sometimes a foolish action no one would dare to take.”
― Guy Morris, The Image: A Quantum Portal Has Opened

“and I said, 'That is why you don't climb mountains, Gwen.' But now I wonder. You aren't afraid of heights."

"No", she said. "Not particularly."

"Only missteps."

She paused midstroke. Did he mean to imply this had been a misstep? "I was afraid," she said carefully. "For a very long time. But no longer."

"So was I," he said, and lifted her chin and kissed her.”
― Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You

“I recalled the afternoon when the two of us stood beating erasers, and Camille confided that she'd done penance for stories - stories that I'll never know if she wrote or only imagined writing. She'd wanted me to tell her a secret from my dreams, a secret from my dreams I hadn't had as yet, and so I didn't quite understand what she was after.
"It's about feeling," Camille had insisted.
I didn't understand then that she was talking about risk.”
― Stuart Dybek, I Sailed with Magellan

“Her name was Karen and Karen was kind in the way that people can be, when kindness doesn't cost them anything.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

“If you find something you really love, don’t be so quick to give it up,” my father counseled me a few weeks before he died, “even if it kind of kills you.”
― Etgar Keret

“In 2044, even comfort had liability.”
― Taimour AlNeimat, The Day Satoshi Returned: A Novel

“Great leaders make peace with uncertainty. They understand that every choice is a hypothesis, not a guarantee.”
― Shamail Aijaz, Paralyzed by Planning: How Businesses Waste Millions Before They Even Begin

“The moment you name a risk; you begin to control it. The moment you ignore it; it begins to control you.”
― Shamail Aijaz, The Art of Risk: How Smart Businesses Prevent Chaos Before It Happens

“The map of risk isn’t drawn with fear it’s drawn with awareness.”
― Shamail Aijaz, The Art of Risk: How Smart Businesses Prevent Chaos Before It Happens

“The road is rough but we must take the risk of seeking new straight path.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I find the world in my head as much more pleasant than the world around me. But unless I journey out of my head and take some of the best of that world out into the worse of the world around me, I do a disservice to both and should live in neither.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Risk sweetens enterprise,’ he answered, ‘and wit can conquer it.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Bellarion

“When the stage is the biggest, when the pressure is at its greatest, when everything is on the line, these are the moments in which champions deliver.”
― Bear Grylls

“Fear is the response to a perceived threat. Greed is the response to a perceived fear.”
― F.C. Quiles, Dismantled: A Theory of Broken Mindsets—A Blueprint of Infinite Futures

“Living Longer Carries Its Own Risk Factor.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“In every reckless act, there’s a hidden reckoning; those who tempt fate will find that consequence is a teacher unwilling to spare its students.”
― pierre lagrenat

“If we head off with an inexperienced guide, we will fast find ourselves in unnecessary danger and will make little progress. It is risk for the sake of risk rather than for any purpose. And ultimately we are more likely than not to end up in a ditch somewhere and probably injured.
Conversely, when we find a great guide, when we are ready to work hard and commit to trust that person’s decisions (even when they feel frightening), then we will travel far. Yes, there will be risk and danger, but
we will be in safe hands and heading in a positive direction. And eventually we will reach that mountaintop, together, uninjured, and the place will take our breath away.
That’s the key with life and with faith. Choose your guide wisely.”
― Bear Grylls, Soul Fuel: Daily Devotions to Survive the Adventure of Life

“Courage must cost us something, or else it is worth nothing at all.”
― Amanda Gorman, Call Us What We Carry

“No one bargains with fire and avoids becoming ash.”
― pierre lagrenat

“Speed multiplies everything. If you lack direction, it multiplies your collapse.”
― PIERRE LAGRENAT

“We are in a time of destruction,
perhaps the worst destruction many of us
have ever known.

So many of us are at risk,
some paying with their livelihoods,
some with their lives,
with their ability to stay here, be here, with
their will to persist ...
some of us just with our time and energy,
peace of mind,
sanity.

So many, so much has already been destroyed.
The cost of this period of our history piles on daily,
even as the signs of its end seem to beckon to us
from the horizon, from the end
of this dark tunnel.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Caution is not virtue. Daring is not sin.”
― George Asiamah, Ember and Bloom

“Everything is a gamble. Ussu smiled now. Really? Everything? What of those who do not gamble? Those who do not gamble do so betting that terrible things eventually happen to those that do”
― Ian C. Esslemont, Stonewielder

“it's risky to be hurt for you / but risk's exactly why were we made”
― Arabella Leyla

“Doing nothing is its own form of risk taking, and one that almost never pays off.”
― Anton Rabie, Different: An Unconventional Guide to Becoming Your Best Self

“I would
load six books into my backpack: three I had read & would read again &
three I had never read before. Can we call this risk? Heading out on my
brother's orange Schwinn--my feet barely touching the pedals--to sit on
the dock going nowhere. To set sail is such a dangerous business.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems

“You may not know where the road ends, but you do not need to see the whole horizon to follow the Beacon. Begin again. Take the risk. Walk into the dark, and become the light you were searching for.”
― Dark Night Beacon, Beacon of the Dark Night: Shining Hope Through the Shadows