Quotes about Risk

She came from a land where revolutionary illusion had long since faded but where the thing he admired most in revolution remained: life on a large scale; a life of risk, daring, and the danger of death. Sabina had renewed his faith in the grandeur of human endeavour. Superimposing the painful drama of her country on her person, he found her even more beautiful.

a man has a right to fear dangers that are less than likely to occur.

The best progressive ideas are those that include a strong enough dose of provocation to make its supporters feel proud of being original, but at the same time attract so many adherents that the risk of being an isolated exception is immediately averted by the noisy approval of the triumphant crowd.

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

That the zeal for God's honor is also a dangerous passion, that the Christian must bring with him the courage to swim against the tide instead of with it... accept a good deal of loneliness, will perhaps be nowhere so clear and palpable as in the church, where he would so much like things to be different. Yet he cannot and he will not refuse to take this risk and pay this price... he belongs where the reformation of the church is underway or will again be underway.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

God told us to go. He didn't promise that we would come back." Butros

Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.

If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.