Quotes About Risk

The willingness to fail gives us the freedom to succeed.

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

...risk is one of the keys that move you from fear to freedom.

Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of safety.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Freedom is never very safe.

The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

Most of us, I suppose, are a little nervous of the sea. No matter what its smiles may be, we doubt its friendship.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

Wit is a dangerous talent in friendship.

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.

She recalled her father saying to her, 'My dear Anna, do not forget that a friend who is not willing to risk his very friendship for a friend is perhaps not such a good friend as he thinks he is.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?