Quotes About Risk

Life is comfortable and clean enough here already. And so secure. What it needs it to be less secure, more eager.

To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism. The office was his pirate ship but the car his perilous excursion ashore.

But she wasn't thinking Yes. She was thinking, Milt, what worries me now isn't how I can risk letting the 'nice people' meet you. It's how I can ever waste you on the 'nice people.

Go. Run with it. Make trouble.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

É arriscado especular antes de ter dados na mão...inconscientemente começa-se a torcer os factos para os acomodar às teorias, em vez de fazer as teorias coincidirem com os factos.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

What good is safety if you're dead inside?

People who want to make a million borrow a million first

Relationships are a battle. They are a chess game. And what did I do? I just threw all my chess pieces down on the board at once, and said, Here! Have them all!

In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.

Emma, it's not worth the risk! For the sake of a taxi fare or two.' I'm pretty sure that if I asked my grandpa what he thought the average taxi fare was in London, he'd say five shillings.

If you are out of trouble, watch for danger.

The penalty is death: yet hope of gain Hath lured men to their ruin oftentimes.

What should a man fear? It's all chance, chance rules our lives.

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

Durven is even de grond onder je voeten verliezen. Niet durven is je leven verliezen.

Christian heroism, and indeed one perhaps sees little enough of that, is to risk unreservedly being oneself, an individual human being, this specific individual human being alone before God, alone in this enormous exertion and this enormous accountability

by not venturing, it is so dreadfully easy to lose that which it would be difficult to lose in even the most venturesome venture…For if I have ventured amiss – very well, then life helps me by its punishment. But if I have not ventured at all – who then helps me?

Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?

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.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.