Quotes About Risk

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

A man who trusts in luck better have plenty of it.

I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

All men would be cowards if they only had the courage.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature.

It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second.

A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.

Live a "Why not?" life, man. Take the shot. The shot is always worth taking.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate.