Risk Quotes

To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

A real sacrifice involves a radical change in the character of a game which cannot be effected without foresight, fantasy, and the willingness to risk.

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.

Kabuto: It's always easier said than done. I just said that this jutsu had no weaknesses or risk... Itachi: Every jutsu has its weakness. This jutsu's weakness and risk is...the existence of me!

Wit puts politicians at risk.

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?

You have to take chances - working in film is a mixture of luck, talent, and ability to take the risk. You have to be optimistic. You can't be a pessimistic person.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.

To grow up without risk is to risk not growing up.

The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say

You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.

I can assure you, as long as I'm here, as long as my colleagues are here, we do know about risks.

That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

Before you'll change, something important must be at risk.

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.

Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices.

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.

Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching.

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk?

We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.

There can be no faith without risk.

The [economic crisis] means that we have to address the challenges and the risks, and we need to take into account the level of resources. Doing better with less means doing it more together.

Audiences arent fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

The danger, when not too dangerous, fascinate.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.

You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.

Investment decision should be made on the basis of the most probable compounding of after-tax net worth with minimum risk.

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good.

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

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

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

Some concepts are so incredibly risky they take an honest fool to try to articulate them.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable.

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