2 Kings 7:4 “If we say, We will enter into the city, then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there: and if we sit still here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us fall unto the host of the Syrians: if they save us alive, we shall live; and if they kill us, we shall but die.”
Throughout the ages, many have tried to put into words exactly what risk is and what it means to them. Some have been more successful than others—cutting to the heart of the matter, appealing to sensibility, or just putting an idea that’s difficult to explain into words we all can understand.Today, I want to share some quotes that have had the greatest impact on people and how I think about the concept of risk.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead. – Albert Einstein
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. – Oprah Winfrey
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life in a great cause. – Theodore Roosevelt
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T. S. Eliot
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. – Jim Rohn
Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. – e. e. cummings
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. –Chuck Palahniuk
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. – John Paul Jones
You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together. – Earl Nightingale
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. – Denis Waitley
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left? – Jim Carrey
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free. – Paul Tillich
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. – Audre Lorde
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. – Maimonides
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen. – Herodotus
God richly bless us .If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business because we’d be too cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. – Annie Dillard
To be continued,
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