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Quotes About Risk

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
~ Oscar Wilde
Care, says the proverb, once killed a cat. It may be so, but it has killed never another.
~ Unknown
We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk.
~ Oswald Chambers
Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them.
~ Oswald Chambers
Great men of action ... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.
~ Oswald Mosley
Cowardice causes blindness.
~ Oswald Spengler
The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.
~ Unknown
You are only one biopsy away from bankruptcy
~ Unknown
Fortune and love favour the brave.
~ Ovid
Fortune and love favor the brave.
~ Ovid
The bold adventurer succeeds the best.
~ Ovid
Venus favors the bold.
~ Ovid
God himself helps those who dare.
~ Ovid
Routine is the death to heroism.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master.
~ P. T. Barnum
Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Everything in life that's any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Be cautious and bold.
~ Unknown
Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt.
~ Unknown
A long time ago a boy climbed a beanstalk, and he came down a thief. Now a thief is climbing a beanstalk. And who knows what will come down?
~ Unknown
El valor, qué es eso? Acaso tenerle más miedo al ridículo que a la muerte.
~ Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind more securely." —ALBERT EINSTEIN, GERMAN THEORETICAL PHYSICIST
~ Pam Grout