Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!
You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it.
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
I want a lifetime of holy moments. Every day I want to be in dangerous proximity to Jesus. I long for a life that explodes with meaning and is filled with adventure, wonder, risk, and danger. I long for a faith that is gloriously treacherous. I want to be with Jesus, not knowing whether to cry or laugh.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
A man sits as many risks as he runs.
If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
To me art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risk.
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
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