Quotes About Risk

High-risk leadership beckons many, but few accept the call.

Leadership is fragile. It is more a matter of mind and heart than resources, and it seemed that we no longer had the heart for those things that demanded discipline, commitment, and risk.

So you only want to go all in if you're guaranteed a win ? Well . . . yeah. Is that wrong? It's not wrong, honey. It's just stupid.

But I believe there is no difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

My men will follow me in battle," I told him. "You'll see." "Of course they will. They know you're a fine fighter. But where there is no danger, your danger will be from them." I

For Solomon says, 'He who loves peril shall be vanquished by peril.

There is always danger for those who are afraid.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.

What is life but a series of inspired follies...

Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

O matrimónio não é a loteria. Na loteria algumas vezes ganha-se.

it's always the patient who has to take the chance when an experiment is necessary. And we can find out nothing without experiment.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day. I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.

MRS. FARRELL. I wouldnt compare risks run to bear living people into the world to risks run to blow them out of it. A mother's risk is jooty: a soldier's nothin but divilmint.

A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

No one lends his entire fortune, not even to his best friend

A small return and a safe one is far more desirable than risk