Risk Quotes

“People, including children (who are people too, after all), don’t seek to minimize risk. They seek to optimize it. They drive and walk and love and play so that they achieve what they desire, but they push themselves a bit at the same time, too, so they continue to develop. Thus, if things are made too safe, people (including children) start to figure out ways to make them dangerous again.” ~ Jordan Peterson, via 12 Rules for Life (Page 287)

“By avoiding risk, we really risk what is most important in life -reaching toward growth, our potential and a true contribution to a common goal.” ~ Max DePree

The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk more.

“A well-defined backup plan is sabotage waiting to happen. Why push through the dip, why take the risk, why blow it all when there’s the comfortable alternative instead? The people who break through usually have nothing to lose, and they almost never have a backup plan.” ~ Seth Godin, Linchpin

“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” ~ Unknown

“Only the weak attempts to accomplish what he knows he can already achieve.” ~ Stella Juarez