Quotes about Risk

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?

In the danger there is certainty in the knowledge of what kind of options to use

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

He is performing a work of art and he is playing with death, bringing it closer, closer, closer, to himself, a death that you know is in the horns because you have the canvas-covered bodies of the horses on the sand to prove it. He gives the feeling of his immortality, and, as you watch it, it becomes yours. Then when it belongs to both of you, he proves it with the sword.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Leaders are not always the first to see an opportunity. They are simply the first to seize an opportunity. It is the person who seizes the opportunity who emerges as the leader. But fear has kept many would-be leaders on the sidelines, while good opportunities paraded by. They didn't lack insight. They lacked courage.

You can't lead without taking risk. You won't take risk without courage. Courage is essential to leadership.

Wherever there is fear, there is opportunity. Wherever there is great fear, there is great opportunity.