Quotes about Risk
You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you're going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you're on the right track.
— Jen Sincero
Have no fear of moving into the unknown.
— Pope John Paul II
Do what you fear and fear disappears.
— David Joseph Schwartz
4. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
5. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In an age of so many people getting hurt in real estate, it shows that you can still do well in real estate.
— Donald Trump
The corporate approach to agriculture or manufacturing or medicine or war increasingly undertakes to help at the risk of harm, sometimes of great harm. And once the risk of harm is appraised as "acceptable," the result often is absurdity: We destroy a village in order to save it; we destroy freedom in order to save it; we destroy the world in order to live in it.
— Wendell Berry
When something is new and hard and bright, there ought to be something a little better for it than just being safe, since the safe things are just the things that folks have been doing so long they have worn the edges off and there's nothing to the doing of them that leaves a man to say, That was not done before and it cannot be done again.
— William Faulkner
My gad, one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; if you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?
— William Faulkner
And I reckon this is jut my lice, too, the other said. 'But I know now why it is,' Byron things. 'It is because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.
— William Faulkner
You cannot swim for new horizons unless you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
— William Faulkner
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
— William James