Quotes About Risk

We're young men; we're not ready to die.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

The coward dies a thousand deaths — the brave man only 500.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.

I think that indicates why men tend to invest more wealth. If he loses some, there's more coming in. Whereas for women, it's like "Ugh, I gotta keep this."

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

I have a soft spot for musicians. If a man could ride this roller coaster with me and come out alive, then I guess we'd deserve each other's company.

Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade.

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

For some men, the inflammation of their arteries is a result of really low good cholesterol.

The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.