If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?
The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I reall...
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economi...
Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through of getting to the other side the relief of a conflict healed the clarity when a paradox dissolves.
People who are born even-tempered placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victori...
Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.
Entrepreneurs in accepting risk achieve security for all. In embracing change they ensure social and economic stability.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
I am willing to put myself through anything temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown and...
What is necessary is never a risk.
Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.
There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
You know, sometimes the right thing isn’t the thing you think is right. It’s the wrong thing you’re afraid to think of.