Quotes About Risk

Living in poor neighborhoods remains almost always a high-risk factor for disorder, suboptimal parenting, and adverse child development. Similarly, neighborhood poverty is known to have deleterious health effects. For example, obesity is systematically worse in poor neighborhoods.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

A cautious revolutionary? You're not going to get anywhere like that.

Well-liked… a dangerous quality in a leader.

A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.

Great risks could be undertaken only after great preparation.

How many things would you attempt If you knew you could not fail

I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old

We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could

La libertad está en ser audaz.

Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

Whenever life becomes Tinkertoys, the queen may be sacrificed.

In many ways fast cruise is tougher than being out to sea. When you're out, you just do your job, and take in stride what comes along. During fast cruise you deliberately push everything to the limit. If it's going to break, better alongside the pier than 2,000 miles away from nowhere, or on the bottom in the Soviets' back yard.

Criminals strike close to home just as the average person chooses stores where he shops daily.

Sometimes any emotion is better than the boredom of security.

Sometimes, however, it is better to take risks and play the most capricious, unpredictable move.

Hesitation creates gaps. Boldness obliterates them.

Never pick a fight with someone you're not sure you can defeat.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

If you are not in danger," says Sun-tzu, "do not fight.

Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan's happy ending, you must work on calculating every possible permutation and pitfall that might emerge in it.

You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear.

If you need everything in your life to be simple and safe, this open-ended nature of the task will fill you with anxiety. If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything. You will unconsciously tether your mind to certain conventions, and your ideas will grow stale and flat.