Reaching the summit of K2 was an incredible experience, but I would trade it in a heartbeat to have Dan back.

It’s about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don’t know what’s going to happen. It’s risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.

Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that’s not freedom! That’s control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understands freedom to be the freedom to take risks, the freedom to do...

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

But if you’re gonna dine with them cannibalsSooner or later, darling, you’re gonna get eaten . . .

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

The ignoramus crow of “love it or leave it” omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it.

Awakening and owning the dreams that God has placed in our hearts isn’t about getting stuff or attaining something. It’s about embracing who we are and who he has created us to be. In him. He is our dream come true, and the one true love of our life. But we can’t love him with...

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

Risk the risks.

Sometimes you just have to have faith in your own ideas. If you don’t someone else will. Why should it be them and not you? The only difference is who is willing to take a chance.

Only those who play win. Only those who risk win. History favors risk-takers. Forgets the timid. Everything else is commentary.

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there’s nothing to be afraid of. If we don’t get over our fears, they never will.

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

But he’d learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn’t worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

Travel is a joy, full of surprises and astonishing new experiences. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster; the risks add spice.

An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents’ and his grandparents’ generation have got through molding it. We can’t help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you:Remember...

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward. All at once, she sees you looking at her, and then she doesn’t want to joke around with you anymore, because she doesn’t want to seem flirty, because she doesn’t want you to...

Every year 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. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having...

to do the best workwe take risk often .how much this risk can bethat’s matter most.

Taking risks to create the life you want is an act of trust. It means believing in your ability to create a new reality while you are in the process of creating it.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

What I’m getting at here is that you can be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on.

The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant…it’s the excuses that change.

I didn’t say a word. He wouldn’t be using oxygen. K2 is more dangerous than Everest.

Look before you leap. Don’t take risks lightly. Make sure someone is watching your back. Safety is a shifting illusion, move with it,” Grandpa recited in Hadadian before leaning forward and adding his own little ending, “And pray. Trust that God knows best, in every situation.

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings.

No struggle, no success! The strongest thunder strikes often bring the heaviest rainfall! The weight of your fulfillment depends on how wide you cast your nets!

All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.

It’s tempting to believe that a break from life’s routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

What do you believe about who you are? About your capabilities? When was the last time you trusted yourself enough to test them?

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularlyso every stretch won’t feel like your first.

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which...

risk takers calculatedly take and over take risk

But if you never did anything you couldn’t undo you’d end up doing nothing at all.