Quotes about Risk

In spite of the range of needs and wants that go unmet when we don't love, it may feel safer to not love. We don't risk the uncertainty and vulnerability of closeness. We don't risk the pain of loving, and for many of us love has caused a great deal of pain.

Doing the right thing when it is not popular or when it is not going to get everyone's approval is not always easy, but I am convinced that if we truly care about other people, we will go ahead and take the risk anyway.

One way to develop courage is to consider what will happen if we fail to act.

Then let's use this incredible tool God has given us to assess the risks that we face every day. We have the means to analyze risks and decide which are worth taking and which should be avoided. Do you have a brain? Then use it. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

There is no substantial risk from vaccines and that the benefits are very significant.

At the risk of oversimplification, maybe abiding doesn't require deep analysis. Perhaps all I need to ask myself at the moment is whether or not I am still tender. Still flexible. At times I am neither. The branch that snaps easily is either dead or stuck in a long-past winter.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

When you don't have anything to lose, you discover something wonderful: you're free to take great risks without fear or reservation.

Growing up, I held back a lot in fear of looking silly or thinking I wouldn't make it.

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bulls, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.