Quotes About Risk

A French player, Sylvain Marconnet, broke his tibia skiing in 2007 and missed his home World Cup. For me the risk of breaking something versus the reward was never worth it.

Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

Statistically, it would be insanity to go into the theatre for money. According to the statistics, you should just stay home. The odds are just incredible.

I don't want to be one of those people who falls out of cabs drunk. But I don't want to be known as some boring girl who just sits at home and doesn't do anything.

Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

False hopes are more dangerous than fears.

If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you're not afraid of heights.

Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.