Quotes about Risk

Running an airline is a normal job. Racing is more.

I played golf with my friends, and then I started to play with the hustlers. And I learned a lot. I learned about golf; I learned about gambling. I learned about everything.

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins.

Perhaps baptism really ought to have some health warnings attached to it: 'If you take this step, if you go into these depths, it will be transfiguring, exhilarating, life-giving and very, very dangerous.' To be baptized into Jesus is not to be in what the world thinks of as a safe place. Jesus' first disciples discovered that in the Gospels, and his disciples have gone on discovering it ever since.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.