Quotes about Risk
There is no way to peace along the way to safety. For peace must be dared. It is the great venture.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.
— Peter Kreeft
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
— Michelangelo
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
— Wayne Gretzky
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Only the one true God can take the risk of ruling by relying on the power of humility and love.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside
— John F. Kennedy
If you feel the urge, don't be afraid to go on a wild goose chase. What do you think wild geese are for anyway?
— Will Rogers
Life is lived on the edge.
— Will Smith
In respect to the danger of being killed by them, it is true that whoever does go must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh and blood; but do not the goodness of the cause, the duties incumbent on us as the creatures of God, and Christians, and the perishing state of our fellow men, loudly call upon us to venture all and use every warrantable exertion for their benefit?
— William Carey