Quotes about Risk
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
— John Ortberg
We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.
— Samuel Johnson
Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.
— Fannie Lou Hamer
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
— Shimon Peres
without emboldening people to envisage the unlikely, we increase risk rather than diminish it.
— Shimon Peres
The choice the pioneers faced was stark: succeed or starve.
— Shimon Peres
Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making
— Reba McEntire
There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
— Max Lucado
Loving is the most unmitigated and courageous act I perform in a day.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Most people settle for connection, because love's too scary. They don't want to lose that feeling, that super high is too crushing so they settle for the comfort of connection.
— Tony Robbins
When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
— Bob Goff