Quotes about Risk
The bravest artists I've ever known have always been graf artists. Risking your life and your freedom is no joke.
— El-P
Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.
— Butch Trucks
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
May you always do what you are afraid to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of what you need to do
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by six.
— Randy Alcorn
Purity is safe. Impurity is risky. Purity always helps us. Impurity always hurts us. Purity is always smart; impurity is always stupid. Write it down. Bank on it.
— Randy Alcorn
God has an appointment with each of us, and it is critical that every man and woman know this. He will stop our steps when it is not our time, and He will lead us when it is. This is a reassuring truth to know for every believer, and a necessary trust for anyone who ministers in areas of great risk.
— Ravi Zacharias
Note that in normal cases of procreation, parents risk bringing a child into a lot of suffering; even the most fortunate of human lives is accompanied by seasons of serious suffering. Even more than that, parents procreate knowing full well that one day the child will suffer death.
— Ravi Zacharias