Quotes About Risk

People's lives are delicate; you cannot interfere with them without running the risk of changing them profoundly. A chance remark, a careless involvement, may make the difference between a life of happiness and one of sorrow.

Minty's in a bit of trouble, and he was not surprised. He said something about her sailing too close to the wind.

Sometimes, you know, good things have to be done—they just have to be done. And most of us—myself included—are too timid to do them. Fortunately, there are brave people who are prepared to take the risk, who do these things, often in such a way that nobody can see them. They say, The world doesn't have to be the way it is; we can change it. That's what they say—and then they do it.

One never gets anywhere unless one leaves

Though a gamester at heart, he never touched a card, for he considered his position did not allow him—as he said— to risk the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous

Nothing risque, nothing gained.

He comes in entirely as an outsider. He lets his mind wander. He's not endangering his academic position because he doesn't have one, and he can take those risks

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Why does a steward steal? He steals because he's not sure he'll always remain with his master and wants to make his future secure.

I never play, because I am not rich enough to afford to lose or poor enough to want to win. Maximilien Morrel, The Count of Monte Cristo

My lord," said D'Artagnan, "Monsieur de Vallon [Porthos] is like me, he prefers service extraordinary—that is to say, enterprises that are considered mad and impossible.

It takes courage to violate expectations, but sometimes the reward is a new level of success.

No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts

The most valuable sense of humor is the kind that enables a person to see instantly what it isn't safe to laugh at

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Va, et advienne que pourra. Go, and come what may.

I put it to him bluntly: 'Look here, Oleg—you're a charming escort, but in my opinion you are a very poor risk for a marriage.'" And then Margaret Kelly said something that might have turned Grace's resentment into loud laughter: "Of course I never interfere, even when I do not approve.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

My love for Addie is terrifying, a perpetual state of vertigo, an ongoing condition of living on the edge of an abyss.

a person with an ACE Score of 4 or more is, statistically, 1,220 percent more likely to attempt suicide than someone with an ACE Score of 0.