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Quotes About Risk

I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.
~ Albert Camus
I just really thought about it and decided I'm not happy. I'm not happy at all. And I think it's really madness to risk your body, risk your well-being and risk your happiness for money.
~ John Moffitt
You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.
~ Paul Newman
I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.
~ Grant Hart
Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
~ Mason Cooley
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
~ Robert Anthony
Taking a risk to survive isn't that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.
~ Sarah Noffke, Revived
Some people would rather live in a hell they've got used to than in a paradise they've never experienced before.
~ Urania Sarri, Gate Deadlock
Give up smoking cold turkey. Start a diet in the next 5 min. Accept that job right away. Life can be beautiful without planning!
~ Rossana Condoleo
Short term gain will result in long term pain
~ Umair Aziz Attari
Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning.
~ Adam Grant, Originals
I'm bad for your health, like puttin' a pistol up to your face and blastin' yourself.
~ Dr. Dre
Cows' milk protein may be the single most significant chemical carcinogen to which humans are exposed.
~ T. Colin Campbell
To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."
~ Carl Rogers
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.
~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.
~ Emanuel Lasker
We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.
~ Erin Brockovich
If we ensure access to health care and 'best practice' asthma treatment for children, especially those at high risk, there is the potential to save the health care system billions of dollars.
~ Irwin Redlener
All this health and safety talk is just killing me.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.
~ Deepak Chopra
Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.
~ Sugar Ray Leonard
I'm not in Wall Street for my health.
~ J. P. Morgan
Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.
~ Joseph Stiglitz