Risking Quotes

“Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.”
― Ronnie Oldham

“Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The box that I’ve built around me is equal to the fear that is within me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I have refused to risk, I have in the self-same decision refused to love. And if indeed I have refused to love, tragically I have refused to live. And when will I realize that that in and of itself is an unacceptable risk.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s not about inviting great things into our lives. Rather, it’s about accepting the invitation of great things to step out of our lives.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The risk in reaching for great things is that they might elude our grasp. But have we considered that the ‘reaching’ might in fact have been the great thing?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest risk is not risking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You know as well as I do that choosing to love another person is choosing to be hurt. However, is choosing ‘not to love’ actually choosing to be hurt simply because we will have chosen to keep a part of ourselves to ourselves that will die a most horrific death in the keeping?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To fully love another is to lay bare the breadth of my inadequacies. But to do anything less is to never have loved. And which, we might ask, is the greater risk?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You are risking your life by inhaling helium gas.”
― Steven Magee

“Risk is the test of love’s validity.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough