Quotes about Risk

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Any known attempt at proselyting would be instantly amenable at a criminal tribunal and would probably be punished by the death of the proselyte and the banishment of the missionary. All efforts must be conducted in private and are therefore very limited.

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.

Christ wants not nibblers of the possible, but grabbers of the impossible.

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous, you don't want it.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.

I'm not a reckless person, in the sense that I wouldn't do something that's reckless or dangerous, because I'm a pretty careful person. For example, I don't snow ski. I did it once, and I promised God I'd never do it again if I lived through it.

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?