Quotes Tagged "risk"

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who's willing to risk everything to make it happen.

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)

The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.

I think i should get love inked on my skin. Maybe that's the only way i am destined to keep it.

If you spoke to your friends the way you speak to yourself - would you have any friends left?

Overconfidence blurs out the risk. Inferiority magnifies it.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

Part of the fun in life is exactly this: running risks.

Oh I know it's cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in- To places few others who even do take the risk've ever been

With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.

Life is a temporary condition, Henry. And it's uncertain. That's why you have to seize chances when you find them. Pursue what you want. Take risks. Live, love...all of it. Every last one of us is going to die, but if we don't live as we truly want, if we're not with the one we want to be with, we're dead already.

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