- “Never was anything great achieved without danger.” ― Niccolo Machiavelli
- Wisdom is foreseeing the consequences. Shane Parrish
- Risk is the only thing that’s safe. Safety is an illusion. Nothing is guaranteed. Except the end. So risk it all anyway. Ed Latimore
- Risk is the absence of control. James Clear
- A leader, by definition, sticks his or her neck out. Naval Ravikant
- Not taking risks one doesn’t understand is often the best form of risk management. Raghuram G. Rajan
- “Few things faze me. My reflex is to plot the next move, take calculated risks, set a target, and reach it- even if it means exercising tremendous patience and attempting countless alternative routes to my goal.” ― Chaker Khazaal, Ouch!: A memoir with a twist…
- “Don’t refuse to risk, if you succeed you will be pleased, if you fail you will be prudent.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “Risk stepping into the mess because, more times than not, on the other side of the tension there are new beginnings, strengthened relationships, and the knowledge that conflict is not something to avoid, but a means to a deeper, stronger, and kinder world.” ― Bruce Reyes-Chow, In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
- “Risk is renamed as opportunity so people would be comfortable to take it.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “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
- Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
- Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. If you wait for 90%, in most cases, you’re probably being slow. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
- Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller
- It’s only risky if you bet the house. Otherwise it’s learning. Maxime Lagacé
- “The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction. John F. Kennedy
- “The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.” ― Michaelangelo
- Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking brilliance. Shane Parrish
- The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become. W. E. B. Du Bois
- “Let people doubt your sanity. Let them think you’re nuts. Be the mad scientist, the wise fool, the adventure addict who makes others question there own aliveness.” ― Amy McTear, We Need You: A Call to an Imaginal Reality
- You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Paulo Coelho
- “Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you’re looking for.” ― Susane Colasanti, Take Me There
- “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
- “Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.” ― Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident], Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
- “Loneliness is an organ we call the brain, So if you want out, good luck baby.Go towards something. Foolishly.The loneliness will eat us anyway,But you can change how you taste:A rock that never doesOr a twinkle that tried.” ― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?
- “We will always be tired, stressed, Processing a tragedy, and/or a little hungry–Like a wild animal, in the middle.The soul comes to play in what we choose to do after.” ― Karl Kristian Flores, Can I Tell You Something?
- “Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.” ― Thomas Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley – Volume 1
- “You can’t gather much if you won’t go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they’ll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they’ll get.” ― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders’ Ladder
- “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