Risk Quotes

Sometimes the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk.

Unknown

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

Carolyn Heilbrun

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince

Risk Risk anything Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.

Baltasar Gracian

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling.

Britney Spears

Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.

Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus

Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.

Julian Weber Gordon

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

Our lives improve only when we take chances - - And the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

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

George Shinn

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde

A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - That is the right and privilege of any free American.

16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.

Mary Lou Cook

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Richard von Weizscke

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.

Jim We

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce

Our lives improve only when we take chances - And the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.

Lori Hard

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

Joan L. Curcio

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Claude T Bissell

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Chuang - Tzu, The Great Supreme

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

T. S. Eliot

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long - Range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoi

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T. S. Elliot

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

George Eliot