1,222 Quotes About Risk

What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, even to risk a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me up there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made simply to go about being safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. Against his interest, against his happiness he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him and go he must.

I think that what fear fears is that we’ll actually take the step.

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.

It was never wise to challenge fate to a Hold my beer contest.

The greatest risk is not trying.

Safe roads lead to expected places.

If you never get off-trail you never discover new landscapes

The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.