Quotes About Risk

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

I never liked riding in helicopters because there's a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part.

In a bet there is a fool and a thief.

No wife can ever endure a gambling husband unless he is a steady winner.

In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge — nothing ever hits there.

Gaming is the son of avarice and the father of despair.

A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.

...and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go.

There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps.

The adventure in popular government has gone on in this country for 150 years. And attended by the new risks of this revolutionary era, it is still the greatest adventure in the world today. And still worth one's faith, and one's courage, and one's perspicacity.

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it...

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Life's a game and men the gamblers. They'll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. Take away that one chance, and - they won't play.

This out of all will remain – They have lived and have tossed: So much of the game will be gain, Though the gold of the dice has been lost.

Few people achieve greatness. One reason is that the opportunity, for the vast majority of us, never even shows up. Another is that if it does, it will inevitably look like a long shot. And the temptation invariably is to play it safe.

Trading provides one of the last great frontiers of opportunity in our economy. It is one of the very few ways in which an individual can start with a relatively small bankroll and actually become a multimillionaire

If you want people to grow, you have to let them take risks, and you have to let them fail.

To move the rocks might yield magical treasures, or, more likely, some unimaginable woe.

Where cowards never venture, heroes find splendor. So

Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down.

People with big personalities can make very big targets of themselves.

Is the world so cruel, then, that that is all that is required to move a man to risk his life? Kindness?