Quotes about Risk

But it must be borne in mind that, if there is a Scylla before me, there is also a Charybdis - and that, in my fear of being read as a jest, I may incur the darker destiny of not being read at all.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.

Isn't there something in living dangerously?

You couldn't have lower-caste people wasting the Community's time over books, and that there was always the risk of their reading something which might undesirably decondition one of their reflexes.

But I don't want comfort; I want god, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts

opportunities are always lost when we let fear overrule our faith

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day