Quotes About Risk

only fools fall in love

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives." -William Wallace

Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.

Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.  

Death and dice level all distinction.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.

Prudence keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.

Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Nothing [...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

There is nothing safe about the darkness of this city and its stink. Well, I have abrogated all claim to safety, coming here. It is better to discuss it as though I had chosen. That keeps the scrim of sanity before the awful set. What will lift it?

Your Excellence, it is not usually the obvious that is dangerous.

Basch: So why don't you ask her out? The Runt: I'm scared she wouldn't like me and say no. -So what? What have you got to lose? -The possibility -if she says no- that she might have said yes. Whatever I do, I don't want to lose that possibility.