Risk Quotes

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

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.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.

Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

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.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

Take a chance. Take a risk. Find that passion and rekindle it. Fall in love all over again. It's really worth it.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated risk - and irresponsibility and capitulation.

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

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

Embrace error: Create an atmosphere in which prudent risk taking is strongly encouraged.

In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.

You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

Be wise enough not to be reckless, but brave enough to take great risks.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

It's one thing when you are photographing others, but when you are exposing yourself and your insecurities, that's the biggest risk. That's always scary.

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.

Of all evil-doers, the American is most to be feared. He uses more ingenuity in the planning of his projects and will take greater risks in carrying them out than any other malefactor on earth.

A world without God cannot wait for us to choose the safe path. If we wait for someone else to take the risk, we risk that no one will ever act and that nothing will ever be accomplished.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.

No one can measure the loss of business that may arise from a defective item that goes out to a customer.

Following Christ is a wild adventure full or risk, frustration, excitement, and setbacks. It is not an evening stroll in a planned community along a well-manicured path.

Its boring not to take risks

Would you risk your life for love?

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

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