Risk Quotes

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

In love, self-love is always at risk.

My strong suit is that I've been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.

Bands are more willing to take risks and we don't need this big label over us anymore telling us what it means to sell records and get into magazines.

The main thing that 99designs is about is choice. Its a fantastic model that eliminates risk for small business owners and puts designers on equal footing.

If you're turned away from one road, there's always another--filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure.

Everyone in a successful organization must be willing and ready to risk. Risk is like change; it's not a choice.

Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.

We didn't know each other well enough yet to risk mucking around in any real way in each other's lives.

I was thinking it was worth the risk if it meant forever with my faery girlfriend.

Hip hop is kinda funny because the further you get into it the more at risk you are.

I'm defining [presidential courage] pretty narrowly. It's not only taking a big political risk but it's also the risk that in the hindsight of history, people think it's wise.

By speeding the transition to cleaner energy, we can improve the lives of billions of people, while also reducing the risks we face from a changing climate.

I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like, "Uh, I don't know..."

First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

Innovation implies high risk, and with high risk comes failure, so you've got to be prepared for that, but if you don't risk, then your business goes stale very quickly.

People are putting their money into treasuries because they worry that the risk of putting their money into the bond market, the stock market or even the money markets is very high.

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.

The risk that is involved in trusting is stepping forth with willingness with a knowing that you can lose something or fail, and doing it anyways

A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

To walk across the street is a risk.

The nation, as you know, is at a critical point. At a time like this we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.

While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.

As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.

If it doesn't make you sweat, it's not worth it. If it's not hard to get, why go for it?

Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.

Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.

Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

I also think it's crucial to convey that the [Black] Movement largely succeeded because of the unwavering dedication of young people willing to risk their comfort, their safety, their lives.

Let the attempt be made, at whatever risk.

Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!

If you are the normal white American, truth is you don't understand being black in America, and you instinctively underestimate the level of discrimination and the level of additional risk.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

But a risk-free life wasn't much of a life, really, and if she was going to change, she might as well start now.

Cinema was always taking the big risks, and TV was ambling along behind, just trying to touch the hem.

Versace was and still is about the sophisticated woman who is elegant, not afraid of her own sensuality, and not afraid to dare or take risks in life.

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

Even though I'm big on recipes, I love to make up my own dishes and when you take a risk in the kitchen, you learn a lot about food!

If you persist in ignoring your intuition, you may find yourself stuck in a permanent holding pattern instead of taking the risks that lead to creative growth.