Risk Quotes

You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.

Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.

For what it’s worth: trust your feelings. I can’t promise that you’ll never get hurt again, but I can promise you the risk is worth it.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

I always felt like hanging around the pocket was trouble, but the truth is, the great players take the beatings in the pocket and expose themselves -- and that is the real risk.

With the risk of being accused of quoting the wrong person I can say that [Adolf] Hitler wrote that "the more the press attacks a person the closer he is to us".

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

Not only are squats not bad for the knees, every legitimate research study on this subject has shown that squats improve knee stability and therefore help reduce the risk of injuries.

Everything in life is a risk! I mean, you walk out onto the street and it's a risk! Don't you think?

The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.

When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Take stands, take risks, take responsibility.

High valuations entail high risks.

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his private interest.

The common objection to seniority pay is, "It's rewarding dead wood!" My response is, "Why do you hire dead wood? Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?"

Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

A plan is only a scenario, and almost by definition, it is optimistic... As a result, scenario planning can lead to a serious underestimate of the risk of failure.

You've got to believe in yourself first. Take risks and don't be afraid to fall.

The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.

Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

You might be a redneck if the biggest fashion risk you take is which plaid you'll wear to the 4-H Fair.

It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.

We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

Adventure without risk is Disneyland.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

I'm proud to be British but there is nothing patriotic about a lack of a plan as to what even would happen if we came out there's nothing patriotic about putting people's jobs at risk.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are... ...We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.

Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.