Quotes About Risk

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

A cowardly leader is the most dangerous of men.

... there's also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" - Paul Hudson

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

We have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.

Men that hazard all Do it in hope of fair advantages: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

Seriously, I don't care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I'd follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

The price for men in motion is the occasional collision.

He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?