Risk Quotes - Page 11

Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and bea hero; better to be content with poverty than to die a slave towealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to havedone nothing and succeeded at it.

The specific weight of the soul is equal to the sum of what has been dared.

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.

The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.

Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Think very carefully about what you want in life. Reckon with the risks.

The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.

The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face.

The purely abstract theorist runs the risk that, as with modern decor, the furniture of the mind will be sparse, bare, and uncomfortable.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.