Quotes about Risk
Not knowing doesn't mean you're condemned to anxiety; rather, not knowing calls for trust, and trust is crucial to good performance. Uncertainty is essential to the game.
— John Ortberg
The boat is safe, secure, and comfortable. On the other hand, the water is rough. The waves are high. The wind is strong. There's a storm out there. And if you get out of the boat—whatever your boat might happen to be—there's a good chance you might sink.
— John Ortberg
Our forbears came to these shores not for free stuff, but for freedom. The chance to make their own way, create a different life. They came here because they knew that God made them free to make their own way in life, take the risk, do their best and take responsibility for their own lives. They came here because they wanted to serve Him in the way they believed, not as they were told.
— Glenn Beck
Yet, I doubt he would have chosen such a risky life if he hadn't been fleeing an orderly one.
— Gloria Steinem
Love is meant to be an adventure!!
— Gordon Hinckley
If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.
— Hillary Clinton
If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Taking a step in the dark is braver than taking a leap in light.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.
— J. Oswald Sanders
A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
— Benjamin Disraeli