Risks Quotes - Page 2

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.

David Lloyd George

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent creative personality for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

Shirley Chisholm

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

General George S. Patton

Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Miguel de Cervantes

I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.

Donna E. Shalala

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

Margaret Truman

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which ensure success.

Entrepreneurs in accepting risk achieve security for all. In embracing change they ensure social and economic stability.

Those who cling to life die and those who defy death live.

Uyesugi Kenshin

And the trouble is if you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Danger can never by overcome without taking risks.

The rewards go to the risk-takers those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer fuller life for themselves.

Every minute of life I take a risk it's part of the enjoyment.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Alexander Smith

My favorite thing is to go where I have never gone.

The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.

Maria De Beausacq

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs and never care how to come down the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

Love like a chicken salad or restaurant hash must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other

Pietro Metastasio

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Napoléon Bonaparte

What is necessary is never a risk.

Cardinal de Retz

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

Take risks: if you win you will be happy if you lose you will be wise.

Anonymous

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

Mary Baker Eddy

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile ... initially scared me to death.

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

When you make a commitment to a relationship you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Barbara De Angelis

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

Shirley Hufstedler

I'll always push the envelope. To me the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Delores Ibarruri

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Competition can damage self-esteem create anxiety and lead to cheating and hurt feelings. But so can romantic love.

Mariah Burton Nelson

I am willing to put myself through anything temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers an often painful process.

Those lose least who have least to lose.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt it means you never take any chances.

All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.

A leader must face danger. He must take the risk and the blame and the brunt of the storm.

Herbert N. Casson

Fortune and love befriend the bold.

Ovid

Our safety is not in blindness but in facing our danger.

J. C. F. von Schiller

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear seeing it for what it is is the only way of putting it to rest.

Harvey Fierstein

Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs.

Japanese Proverb

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life do not on that account shrink from danger.

If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An individual dies ... when instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being he cowers within and takes refuge there.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness-and fewer those who have taken that chance.

You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.

Without risk faith is an impossibility.

Søren Kierkegaard

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S Eliot

In order to find the edge you must risk going over the edge.

The faster you go the more chance there is of stubbing your toe but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

Charles F. Kettering

Taking risks gives me energy.

Jay Chiat

It is the business of the future to be dangerous.

Alfred North Whitehead

To achieve anything you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Vincent van Gogh

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