Quotes about Risk

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

Perhaps baptism really ought to have some health warnings attached to it: 'If you take this step, if you go into these depths, it will be transfiguring, exhilarating, life-giving and very, very dangerous.' To be baptized into Jesus is not to be in what the world thinks of as a safe place. Jesus' first disciples discovered that in the Gospels, and his disciples have gone on discovering it ever since.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?

And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did.

It's a gamble every time you get up in the morning.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.