Quotes About Risk

Duveen instantly wrote his ten-thousand-pound purchase off as a total loss, but the pictures he acquired from the diplomat's friends returned him a profit many times as large as his investment.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Ionako sam se još od djetinjstva bojao razbacivati sre?om i želio sa?uvati dio i za budu?nost... To je bio razlog zbog kog sam puno prilika i propustio, ali uvijek sam se ustru?avao od toga da traže?i previše preplašim sre?u.

Send a hero into a dragon's den, and his task is clear. It is a hero of another order who can summon up the courage to lower himself into a well of which we have no knowledge.

Aliye, bana böyle ?eyler yazma... Sonra ben sana deli gibi a??k olurum.

Ali ljudi zbog ne?ega više vole istraživati stvari za koje ve? naga?aju što bi mogli prona?i. Nesumnjivo je lakše prona?i junaka koji ?e u?i u bunar za koji se zna da na njegovu dnu živi aždaja, nego ?ovjeka koji ?e pokazati hrabrost i u?i u bunar za koji se uop?e ne zna što se nalazi na njegovu dnu.

Život je kocka koja se samo jednom igra, ja sam na kocki izgubio. Drugi puta ne mogu igrati...

I won't remain in a marriage where you refuse to trust me, to take some chances for my sake. Abigail Mercer

Until that moment, he hadn't been sure he would prevail. Any woman brave enough to thrust a blade at him was unpredictable at best, and dangerous at worst.

Every person, young or old, risks the possibility of their life not turning out as planned. Especially when it comes to marriage. They might find they aren't suited for marriage after all. Or their spouses might die of an early illness. Taking a risk on another person is what marriage is all about.

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

Confidence and stupidity are a very dangerous combination, but they generally go together.

I have also read recently about groups of young white couples who get together, the husbands throw their house keys into a hat, then, blindfolded, the husbands draw out a key and spend the night with the wife that the house key matches.

This was my first lesson about gambling: fi you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating.

When you have nothing to lose, you have the freedom to thumb your nose at the rules set by others.

Just dumb enough to be fearless, just bright enough to be dangerous, and a dead shot.

If we are going to die anyway...why be cautious? Why not risk all now, at this moment, in this adventure?

All life is an experiment.

Rares sont ceux qui ont assez de folie pour entreprendre de réaliser leurs rêves

Faut pas s'attacher aux autres, c'est trop risqué.

Yes there are violent and dangerous criminals out there, but there are many more people in the world who will kill you for pissing them off.

In Holland, Ron was the battalion S-2 Intelligence officer for Colonel Robert Strayer. While on reconnaissance, Ron paddled across the Neder Rhine alone at night. The enemy opened fire on him and he dove into the water with a German bullet in his butt. He finished recrossing the river by swimming and was found bleeding and exhausted on the south shore. In spite of his wound, he brought back critical information and later received the Silver Star for that adventure.

One of the five new replacements went right on guard duty. He was hit in the neck within forty-five minutes. I don't know if he lived, but he never did come back. His war was pretty short. - Don Bond