Quotes
Quotes about Risk
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Risk - If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
These most brisk and giddy-paced times. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song, That old and antique song we heard last night. Methought it did relieve my passion much, More than light airs and recollected terms Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times. Come, but one verse.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk.
