Quotes About Risk

God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk.

Be bold! That's one way Of getting through life.

If you hook up a politician to a lie detector machine, the shrapnel could kill everyone in the room.

The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

In December 2013, a tourist in Melbourne fell off a pier and plunged into the sea while checking Facebook on her phone. She still had it in her hand when she was rescued.

The Exxon Valdez wreck, the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, and the nuclear accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island all were at least partially caused by a lack of sleep.5

Moshe Dayan would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more had to be rejected; the remaining two, however, were brilliant.

The fear of failure can paralyze you. The reluctance to make decisions or take steps can often be traced back to the fear of failing in some way. To succeed, however, you have to accept the risk of failure, as well as the risk of success. Sometimes that, too, can be a scary prospect.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

But one way or another, judges perform a very vital function in our society. They have a risky job and they are entitled to security.

The more at risk a person is to exposure to hazardous waste, nationwide, we discovered, the less likely a person was to be worried about it, and the more likely to be a conservative Republican.

You have to put yourself in the situation that you might fail.

Amar exige coragem e hoje somos todos covardes.

art is risk made visible

Take my advice. Make love to every pretty woman you meet. And remember, if you get 5 per cent on your outlay it's a good return.

humanity walks ever on a thin crust over terrific abysses.

You must play boldly to win.

Political courage is not political suicide.

Self-confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk-running and chance-taking are the only ways to catch it.