Quotes About Risk

It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.

When the lie and the truth are two trenchant weapons, they are at the risk of becoming downright uncertainties.

Truth be told, most of us are faking our way through life. We pick only those battles we are sure to win, only those adventures we are sure to handle, only those beauties we are sure to rescue.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

It's a dangerous game that comedy plays. Sometimes it tells you the truth; sometimes it delays it.

The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach, So shalt thou live beyond the reach Of adverse Fortune's pow'r; Not always tempt the distant deep, Nor always timorously creep Along the treach'rous shore.

You don't like it that I am the one you need to keep the wolf from the door; that comes as no surprise. But I am the one you have. At some point we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

The risk of insult is the price of clarity. To be clearly understood one must speak the simple, essential truth as plainly as he is able.

Listen,"Kristy said," the truth is,nothing is guranteed. You know better than anybody." She looked at me hard,making sure I knew what she meant.I did."So don't be afraid.Be alive.

She didn't even know how dangerous the truth could be, all the tiny, shattering seeds it carried.

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.