Risk Quotes - Page 33

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

Managing risk is very different from managing strategy. Risk management focuses on the negative-threats and failures rather than opportunities and successes.

The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.

Like skiing with bent knees makes the moguls fun, you need to take risks, get out of your comfort zone, have a positive attitude, and enjoy the bumps in the road. I like to say that if things aren’t to your liking, change your liking.

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die

The easy way out usually leads back in.

All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

This is the central illusion in life: that randomness is a risk, that it is a bad thing.

Loving someone is taking a constant risk with your emotions. When you find the right person,the one you know you want to be with, that person becomes worth the risk.

Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.

Sometimes we need to take big risks if we want to find out who we are, and what we were put on this planet for.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.

Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.

If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.