Quotes About Risk

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

You think we stand a chance? (Delphine) Like an icicle on the equator. (Phobos)

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

What you risk reveals what you value.

With great care we might have a dog's chance, but no more.

Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance.

If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.

If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?

All too frequently we relate like timid birds who don't dare to leave the nest.

We try to do what we think is going to help. But we don't know. We never know if we're going to fall flat or sit up tall. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may be just the beginning of a great adventure.

For all we know, when we get to the horizon, we are going to drop off the edge of the world. Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's waiting out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

We are given chances all the time. We can either cling to security, or we can let ourselves feel exposed, as if we had just been born, as if we had just popped out into the brightness of life and were completely naked.

Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it.

Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.

Mama always used to say that love is never lost, even if it's not returned in the way you hope or expect. "Put it on out there," she said. "Lay your heart on the line, and don't be afraid of getting it broken. Broken hearts heal. Guarded hearts just turn to stone.

If you try to engineer all of the risk out of a trade, it will only surface somewhere else when it is least welcome.

much more focus on risk management, rather than risk measurement. Understanding how to reduce risk before the fact is much more productive than identifying it afterward.