Quotes about Risk

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience' sake, runs the risk of starving.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.

I have to be careful, he continued, turning to me with a smile, for I dabble with poisons a good deal.

It is bad enough to have a bear in your house, but it does not seem to me to mend matters if you call in a pack of ferocious wolves as well.

Life itself is a sea full of reefs and maelstroms that a human being takes the greatest care and caution to avoid; he uses all his efforts and ingenuity to wend his way through, while knowing that even if he is successful, every step brings him closer to the greatest, the total, the inescapable and irreparable shipwreck, and in fact steers him right up to it, - to death: this is the final goal of the miserable journey and worse for him that all the reefs he managed to avoid.

Maybe that is all any bravery is, a stronger fear of not being brave.

Don't make waves is good advice from a leaky boat.