Quotes About Risk

There are a lot of fellas with all the ability it takes to play in the major leagues, but they never make it, they always get stuck in the minor leagues because they haven't got the guts to make the climb.

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.

If at first you succeed, don't take any more stupid chances.

Sometimes "the fool who rushes in" gets the job done.

Progress means taking risks, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.

Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Within the first few months I discovered that being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.

In America, any boy may become president, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.

I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is sure in a sea fight beyond all others.

A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "Yes, I've got dreams, of course, I've got dreams." Then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

All glory comes from daring to begin.

When it comes to betting on yourself ... you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.

Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.

A worried man could borrow a lot of trouble with practically no collateral.

Of course I realized there was a measure of danger. Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when I first considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it again.

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.

To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.