Risk Quotes - page 2

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. (Ernest Hemingway)
The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity; it is an occupational risk. View quote
Oswald Mosley
Everything is sweetened by risk. View quote
Alexander Smith
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general. View quote
Lorraine Hansberry
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. View quote
Voltaire
Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. View quote
Storm Jameson
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. View quote
Xenophon
Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again. (James Frey)
If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity? View quote
André Malraux
Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell It was a risk I had to takeand took. View quote
Robert Frost
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. View quote
Alan Greenspan
You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors. View quote
Arundhati Roy
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. View quote
Anaïs Nin
And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit. View quote
Temple Grandin
No safety without risk, and what you risk reveals what you value. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting. View quote
Julie Taymor
People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I'm not insane, sir,” I said. "I have a finely calibrated sense of acceptable risk. (John Scalzi)
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
If information is true, if it can be verified, and if it's really important, the newspaper needs to be willing to take the risk associated with using unidentified sources. View quote
Bob Woodward
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - and surely will at times - fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. View quote
Joyce Brothers
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. View quote
Kingman Brewster, Jr.