Quotes about Risk

You take the first step, and to save yourself from the consequences, you take the next one. In times like ours, there are only two directions: up or plummet.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

Their youngness is terrifying. How could I have put myself into the hands of such inexperience?

And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did.

It's a gamble every time you get up in the morning.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

There is a silence. But sometimes it's as dangerous not to speak.

There's a moon now, almost full. Good luck for owls; bad luck for rabbits, who often choose to cavort riskily but sexily in the moonlight, their brains buzzing with pheromones.

It would make me feel that I have power. But such a feeling would be an illusion, and too risky.

Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

Toni Morrison said, The function of freedom is to free someone else, and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?