Quotes About Risk

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Successful people in particular are susceptible to surges of anything-is-possible. They then plunge into new, seemingly attractive markets hoping to prove themselves to the world yet again. However, it is extremely rare that the same person achieves world championship or wins the Nobel Prize in two disciplines. Danger looms just around the corner if the new activity is too distracting and the core business is neglected.

But going against the mkt., everything is turned on its head: the more a stock is depreciated, the larger the profit, and vice versa.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks

Quase nunca choro. Não sou mais forte do que aqueles que ficam de olhos molhados, sou mais fraco. Eles arriscam. Quando se tem só pele e osso, sentimentos são coragem. Eu prefiro ser cobarde.

The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.

crazy people must have an advantage when it comes to doing crazy things.

I hadn't been hanging around a knight errant for three years without learning that impossible things can happen, if you're willing to throw common sense in the air and try .

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

I picked up a snake once. In Italy." "Why did you do that?" "For a bet." "Was it poisonous?" "We didn't know. That was the point of the bet." "Did it bite you?" "Of course." "Why of course?" "It wouldn't be much of a story, would it? If I'd put it down unharmed, and away it slid?

God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut.

My father always says, choosing a wife is like putting your hand into a bag full of writhing creatures, with one eel to six snakes. What are the chances you will pull out the eel?

My father doesn't have views. He would like to, but he can't take the risk.

Gambling is not a vice, if you can afford to do it.

The wise councillor must always prepare for his fall.

He who climbs higher than he should, falls lower than he would.

Here's a bargain. You can take him to a sermon if you don't take him to a brothel." Mercy, he suspects, comes from a family where John Wycliffe's writings are preserved and quoted, where the scriptures in English have always been known; scraps of writing hoarded, forbidden verses locked in the head. These things come down the generations, as eyes and noses come down, as meekness or the capacity for passion, as muscle power or the need to take a risk.

He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.