Quotes About Risk

Anybody who can drive and doesn't come out of it a rich man is a fool.

No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.

A weak man in a corner is more dangerous than a strong man.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

Safe men are for marrying. Dangerous men are for pleasure.

It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!

All men die. Only a few ever live.

But I shall follow the endless, winding way, — the flowing river in the cave of man; careless whither I be led, reckless where I land.

The more illegal a profit, the more tenaciously a man clings to it.

Man is never watchful enough against dangers that threaten him every hour. [Lat., Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cautum est in horas.]

The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.

Strike at a great man, and you will not miss.

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.