Quotes about Risk

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

To try is to risk failure. But risks need to be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel change, grow, love and live. Chained by their certitudes, they are a slave; they have forfeited their freedom. Only a person who risks is free.

Only one who risks is free.

I could be rearrested at any time; there could be attempts of my life. I have no idea. You are dealing with totally unpredictable people and a nation where the rule of law means nothing.

Like women, life is unpredictable and a huge risk.

While turning pro had a lot of upside, for me, it could also have turned out to be a disaster.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

If you choose to face conflict head on, it is full of risks and the potential for great hurt, but it can also be redemptive.

Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame