- “In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.” ― Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
- If you try more you’ll fail more. If you fail more you’ll care less. If you care less you’ll try more. Jack Butcher
- “Vital lives are about action. You can’t feel warmth unless you create it, can’t feel delight until you play, can’t know serendipity unless you risk.” ― Joan Erickson
- “And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong (pg. 35 Chicken Soup for the Soul Living your Dreams)” ― Jack Canfield and Mark Hanson
- “To save all we must risk all.” ― Friedrich von Schiller, Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy
- “When you see the extent to which people try, like the tremors of a ballet dancer, or the intensity of a pianist, or a mural containing the details of tiny little people making up the background– you see the vulnerable extension of our private selves. There is an element inside us and it wavers between beauty and madness. You know it when you see it, like a hyperactive atom bouncing in a tube. It is like trying, really trying, and when we do, we are in our most honest forms. When we reach, we expose the contents of the human spirit. The more often we see it spill, the more encouraged we are to go further. And we can go further than others, in joyous competition. After all, it is called the human race, no?” ― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?
- The goal is progress, not looking good. Maxime Lagacé
- “Live in the stretch.Extending your limbs out,In a burn, in a hollow trespass,Tremoring, a second away from a shout,And keep going after it hurts– the animal won’t.Live in the stretch.It is the only way to know anything in the dark.It is the only way to feel on fire.The animals eat well, but we can pass the mark.And if beavers land on the moon, this poem has expired.” ― Karl Kristian Flores
- “The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk.” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- “I think i should get love inked on my skin.Maybe that’s the only way i am destined to keep it.” ― Anjum Choudhary
- “An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. “You are perfectly welcome,” it tells him, “during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don’t blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don’t cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy.” ― Christopher Isherwood, Exhumations
- Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. Frederick Wilcox
- There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin
- Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. Warren Buffett
- In school, we rarely learn probability and statistics, leaving us victims of our mind’s own inability to process random events. Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “Seek advice on taking risk from a capitalist and not from a gambler.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “If you want something which is beyond your reach, you will have to do something which is beyond your capacity.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- Everything in life is a risk/reward proposition. Sanjay Gupta
- “He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, “Have I lost you love?” ― Erin Jamison, Better Than 8: Fantasy
- “Take the risk to ask for whatever you need and want. If someone says no, you will not lose anything. If someone says yes, you have a lot to gain.” ― Abhishek Ratna, small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era
- Jump. Life is a river. Maxime Lagacé
- We don’t know until we try, but we don’t want to try until we know. Jack Butcher
- Consider totality of risk and effect; look always at potential second order and higher level impacts. Charlie Munger
- “Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- If you better understood risk, you’d take more “risks.” Sahil Lavingia
- You don’t know what’s going to work until you give it a chance to work. Jack Butcher
- You cannot look for validation from other people anytime you’re sticking your neck out. Naval Ravikant
- “When you see the extent to which people try, like the tremors of a ballet dancer, or the intensity of a pianist, or a mural containing the details of tiny little people making up the background– you see the vulnerable extension of our private selves. There is an element inside us and it wavers between beauty and madness. You know it when you see it, like a hyperactive atom bouncing in a tube. It is like trying, really trying, and when we do, we are in our most honest forms. When we reach, we expose the contents of the human spirit. And we can go further than others, in joyous competition. After all, it is called the human race, no?” ― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?
- Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Ella Wiliams
- “Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who’s willing to risk everything to make it happen.” ― Sam Childers, Another Man’s War: The True Story of One Man’s Battle to Save Children in the Sudan