Risk Quotes
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs.Oscar Wilde
Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.Mary Lou Cook
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.Anais Nin
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.Lori Hard
We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.W. Somerset Maugham
Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.Arnold Schwarzenegger
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.E. e. cummings
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.Helmuth von Moltke
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.Carolyn Heilbrun
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.Mark Twain
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.Pierre Corneille
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.Storm Jameson
A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win.Paul Jones
In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.Sheldon Kopp
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.Katherine Mansfield
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.T. S. Elliot
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.Joyce
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.Tobias G. Smollett
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.Claude T Bissell
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Our lives improve only when we take chances - And the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.Walter Anderson
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.Jim We
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.Jawaharlal Nehru
You have to reach a level of comfort with that risk.Sally Ride, President, Space. com
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.Shakti Gawain
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.T. S. Eliot
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
