Quotes about risk

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Source: Approaching Zion

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: You have to take risks … We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun — and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist — that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists — a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

Source: Disturbing the Peace (1986), Ch. 2 : Writing for the Stage

Source: A World Without Heroes

Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Source: Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot

Source: The Lords of Discipline

Source: Beauty

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

Source: Spirit Bound

Lexie Darnell, Chapter 13, p. 205
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)
Context: In her new, more mature incarnation, she embraced the idea that maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark in the world.

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye

Sexing the Cherry (1989)
Variant: What you risk reveals what you value. (p.91)
Source: Written on the Body

Source: Summer and the City

Variant: Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That's part of the risk.
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Source: The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays

Excerpts from the two paragraphs above have sometimes been quoted in abbreviated form: At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
Man and Socialism in Cuba (1965)
Context: At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or she must combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize this love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and indivisible. They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection, to the level where ordinary people put their love into practice.
The leaders of the revolution have children just beginning to talk, who are not learning to call their fathers by name; wives, from whom they have to be separated as part of the general sacrifice of their lives to bring the revolution to its fulfilment; the circle of their friends is limited strictly to the number of fellow revolutionists. There is no life outside of the revolution.
In these circumstances one must have a great deal of humanity and a strong sense of justice and truth in order not to fall into extreme dogmatism and cold scholasticism, into isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.

Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)
Variant: Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Source: Living Loving and Learning
Context: To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Variant: It is quite a risk to spank a wizard for getting hysterical about his hair.
Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

Source: Pet Sematary

Source: Succubus Blues

Variant: You’re the greatest risk I’ve ever taken.” His pressed his lips gently to mine. “And the greatest reward.
Source: Reflected in You

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Three Musketeers

Source: Lock and Key

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: Muhammad: A Biography of The Prophet (2001)

Source: Married By Morning

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Source: The Cocktail Party

essay "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action", in Sister Outsider

Source: The Wild Orchid: A Retelling of The Ballad of Mulan

Source: True Believer

Source: Clockwork Princess

Source: The Hammer of Thor

Source: Brida

Source: Written in Red

Source: The House of Hades

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Source: The Treasure Map of Boys: Noel, Jackson, Finn, Hutch, Gideon—and me, Ruby Oliver

Source: In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Source: Alice in Zombieland

Source: The Final Empire

Source: Chainfire

Source: Brida

Source: The Magus

Source: One Fifth Avenue

Source: A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller

Variant: Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Source: Platform

Source: Catching Fire

March, 1933 http://books.google.com/books?id=Ps_DtS_PFb4C&amp;q=%22I+postpone+death+by+living+by+suffering+by+error+by+risking+by+giving+by+losing%22&amp;pg=PT203#v=onepage <br class="br">Diary entries (1914 - 1974)

Source: The Last Kingdom

Source: The Fiery Cross

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Voyager

Source: Raja-Yoga

Source: It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

Source: Monster High

Source: In Praise of Love

Source: Love the One You're With

Source: Blink of an Eye

As quoted in "Visit to Two-Finger Typist" by Elliot Chaze in LIFE magazine (14 July 1961)

Source: The Arkadians

Source: Strait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars