Risk Quotes

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical act...

What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to...

Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving dea...

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be l...

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail....

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of ...

So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has brav...

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 ...

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

Sirius looked out of the fire at Harry, a crease between his sunken eyes. “You’re less like your fat...

Well, that is what you risk when you fall in love. You risk losing your dignity.

You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that.""Further?""With your life. You must bec...

Like most people, when I look back, the family house is held in time, or rather it is now outside of...

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to mi...

We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they mak...

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by o...

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way o...

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capita...

There is always the risk: something is good and good and good, and then all at once it gets awkward....

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the pr...

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

It is easy when you are young to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to a...

In terms of having an experience, seriously contemplating a murder was almost as good as going throu...

The dreamer is a distinguished operatic artist, and, like all who have elected to follow, not the sa...

Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fight...

The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we...

I think I’m getting a notion of how to do this. O.K., a carnival works because people pay to feel am...

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act...

I sometimes wonder whether the act of surrender is not one of the greatest of all - the highest. It ...

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressi...

My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, ...

I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

To take that risk, to offer life and remain alive, open yourself like this and become whole.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to G...

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strateg...

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses...

What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate res...

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living r...

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, ...

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and...

At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning i...

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both...

I think one can easily make a case for taking out Saddam Hussein. In fact, one could probably be mad...

...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction...

There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have ...

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as r...

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

Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and you...

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship ...

Behind all the surface composure, there seemed to be a great darkness: an urge to test himself, to t...

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosi...

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said...

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed ...

Break the glass, I thought to myself, because it is a symbolic gesture. Try to understand that withi...

I'm saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so he...

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to...

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect ...

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that ther...

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If y...

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

A natural response when people feel overwhelmed is to retreat into various forms of passivity. If we...

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conc...

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk bravery is a rampart of defense.

Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originali...

Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground...

The only risk of failure is promotion.

If school is about postponing the day you have to stand up in front of the world and put yourself at...

It’s all a risk. Always. That’s not true, actually. The only exception: it’s a certainty that there’...

I might be manipulating you to create risk for myself.

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itsel...

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put yo...

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global...

All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. ...

I know I'll never marry, never risk bringing a child into the world. Because if there's one thing be...

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to ...

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, ...

We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with...

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest...

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not stand...

Fortune sides with him who dares.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

One sticking point was that Jobs wanted his payout to be in cash. Amelio insisted that he needed to ...