Quotes About Risk

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Being a president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

All men would be cowards if they could.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

Men give their confidence at once, but never their money.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

A man is robbed on the Stock Exchange, just as he is killed in a war, by people whom he never sees.

Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

Free men stick their necks out.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.