Risk Quotes

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 ...

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

In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was so...

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a d...

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothin...

The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surroun...

For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to ...

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following h...

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

No act of knowledge acquisition is entirely without risk.

Without risk in our lives, we’re scarcely better than machines ourselves.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone ...

The field of asking is fundamentally improvisational. It thrives not in the creation of rules and et...

I think it’s glorious to be nervous. Being nervous is great! How often do we get nervous on a daily ...

So what do I do? What do we do? How do we move forward when we are tired and afraid? What do we do w...

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or id...

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...

I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dan...

I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpas...

The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismiss...

We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. T...

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon b...

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept espe...

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the ext...

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is unce...

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappoint...

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure i...

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

Some have won a wild delight,By daring wilder sorrow;Could I gain thy love to-night,I'd hazard death...

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

They say ol’ man Beach is crazy. And maybe he is. But he goes ahead anyways. He’s the sort of man wh...

I'd never really believed in terrorists before--I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terro...

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, an...

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you ...

If I've learnt anything over the last six years it's that the most important thing is the strength o...

Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and ...

Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to los...

It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or anothe...

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform act...

Love's easy to learn. It's like taking a risk. You set your mind on it and refuse to be afraid, and ...

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own b...

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely fre...

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - eve...

We must all get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we...

... desperate times required judicious risk-taking.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. Th...

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

It was not my intention - it never was - to invent a character who should speak for me, the author, ...

A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucra...

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think the...

They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever...an...

To save all we must risk all.

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is ...