Quotes on “risk”

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly.

Better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing than play it safe. Love is a lot of things, but safe isn’t one of them.

The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

Love is not something you protect. It’s something you risk.