Quotes about Risk

Life doesnt come with any guarantees. You have to risk it to get the biscuit." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

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

Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow.

People who live in fear tend to do a powerful lot of nothing.

If you want to know the truth about what you've built, you have to ship it. You can test, you can brainstorm, you can argue, you can survey, but only shipping will tell you whether you're going to sink or swim.

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Oh, I am—it's much safer to be fond of dangerous people.

minnows who go to a whale to learn how to grow bigger are likely to be swallowed in the process.

Untried forms of government may, to unstable minds, recommend themselves even by their novelty.

and social manners. All these (in their way) are good things, too; and without them, liberty is not a benefit whilst it lasts, and is not likely to continue long. The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints. Prudence would dictate this in the case of separate, insulated, private men. But liberty, when men act

When happy, we possess something we love; when anxious, something we love is at risk; when despondent, something we love has been lost; when angry, something we love is being stolen or kept from us.

He says "I love you" first, even when we respond with an indifferent shrug or the equivalent of a passing, "Oh, thanks." And in this we discover why it might be hard for us to move toward others: the one taking the initiative in the relationship—the one who loves most—is the one who risks humiliation.