Top 100 No Risk Quotes
#1. Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
Rumi
#2. An accent like mine and a face like mine, I think a lot of the time it's easy for casting directors to just stick me in as a bad boy, but 'Being Human' took a risk on me - bless 'em - and I'm not that bad boy no more.
Michael Socha
#4. Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
Zhang Jindong
#5. The gospel is so valuable that no risk is unreasonable. Life is gained by laying it down for the gospel. If I live, I win and get to keep on preaching Christ. If I die, I win bigger by going directly to be with Christ...
David Sitton
#6. There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
Elisabeth Elliot
#7. Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
John Corbett
#8. Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.
Bill Johnson
#9. But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ...
James Cameron
#10. The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.
Paulo Coelho
#11. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
Israelmore Ayivor
#12. Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.
Jeanette Lee
#13. Leadership is fragile. It is more a matter of mind and heart than resources, and it seemed that we no longer had the heart for those things that demanded discipline, commitment, and risk.
Gene Kranz
#14. Love has no demand of us but to keep practicing, to do the next hard thing. Love says, Come dear. Take the next step.
Anna White
#15. There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.
Amelia E. Barr
#16. There is no such thing as a riskless asset. The reason an asset pays a return is that it carries risk.
Michael Lewis
#17. We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
Ed Markey
#19. Unless there is the element of extreme risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith
Hudson Taylor
#20. Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.
Richie Sambora
#21. When he went to go get groceries, though, he asked Mercer to come. 'There's no one I'd rather get stuck in a snowdrift and freeze to death with,' William said.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#22. I've been saying this for years: There is no longer such a thing as a safe and secure job.
Robert Kiyosaki
#23. You don't run from the people who need you. You fight for them. You fight beside them. No matter the cost. No matter the risk.
Rick Yancey
#24. Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.
Chuck Wendig
#25. What we read as adults should be read, I think, with no warnings or alerts beyond, perhaps: enter at your own risk. We need to find out what fiction is, what it means, to us, an experience that is going to be unlike anyone else's experience of the story.
Neil Gaiman
#26. Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.
Caroline Leavitt
#27. You just like me because I'm safe. There's no risk. And then you never have to try to have a real relationship, because you can use me as an excuse.
Cassandra Clare
#28. Of the risks a man has got to take! Now the risk was inevitable, I no longer saw it in the same cheerful light. The fact is that, insensibly, the absolute strangeness of everything, the sickly jarring and swaying of the machine,
H.G.Wells
#29. I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.
Davy Jones
#30. When investing, I'm not against risk. If you take no risk you must expect a low return. Just don't let anyone fool you into thinking you can get a high return with low risk.
Paul Clitheroe
#31. We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat.
Paul Farmer
#32. Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name?
Frank Herbert
#33. Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
Emanuel Celler
#34. So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success, but merely being willing to risk the experiment of finding whether the truth they seek lies there.
Rene Descartes
#35. Life is an extended camping trip. With a leaky, inferior tent one runs no more risk of rain than anyone else; but if it does rain, the person in the cheap tent chances soaking in his sleeping bag, and possibly dying of hypothermia.
William T. Vollmann
#36. No matter how strong and dedicated a leader may be, he must find root and strength amongst the people. He alone cannot save a nation. He may guide, he may set the tone, he may dedicate himself and risk his life, but only the people may save themselves.
Ferdinand Marcos
#37. Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.
Andre Dubus III
#39. As for myself, I look upon all women as my Mother. This is a very pure attitude of mind. There is no risk or danger in it. To look upon a woman as one's sister is also not bad. But the other attitudes are very difficult and dangerous. It is almost impossible to keep to the purity of the ideal.
Ramakrishna
#40. If you're experiencing no anxiety or discomfort, the risk you're taking probably isn't worthy of you. The only risks that aren't a little scary are the ones you've outgrown.
Price Pritchett
#41. I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.
Christopher Vokes
#42. No risk is too great if the potential reward is revenge.
Paul Platt
#43. There's some wisdom and no moral deficiency to one who holds courage in reserve and uses it as a last resort. Before we take the kind of risks that require courage, we ought to exhaust other less risky alternatives.
Michael Josephson
#44. The secret is to throw yourself into the water of life again and again, not to hang back, no reservations, risk everything, but above all strike out boldly with all you have.
Arshile Gorky
#45. A high degree of autonomy is what permits innovation, experimentation and risk taking in a bureaucracy. If the slightest mistake can end a career, then no one will ever take risks.
Francis Fukuyama
#46. If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
Samuel Johnson
#47. I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.
Charles Hermite
#48. For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
Soren Kierkegaard
#49. Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.
Elizabeth Warren
#50. Life offers no guarantees, so I can't offer them to you either. But when you meet someone you want to share your life with, the guarantees won't matter to you. You'll look at that person and know that being with them is worth the risk, and only then will you be willing to take it.
Cassie Cross
#51. Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings growth than they were the day the Titanic sank, and risk management is a good deal worse.
Timothy Noah
#52. I want to know without words. I want to fall so violently that I risk breaking into a million pieces. I want to love so desperately it's indecent. I want it to be wild and fated and forever. A no-choice connection.
Tia Williams
#53. In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
Sheldon B. Kopp
#54. The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks
Andrew Carnegie
#55. There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.
Jackie Stewart
#56. Within legal enforcement of "morality," there is no sense of how to morally, ethically, or fairly help people live safer lives. It's all about banishment or punishment or forced destitution - all of which creates more desperation, and more social risk-taking by people in moments of crisis.
Terre Thaemlitz
#57. If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance arbitrarily and defended at great risk. Because the risk validates the importance.
Robert B. Parker
#58. Jill would kill me if she thought anyone fancied me," he said with charming anxiety.
"No, she wouldn't", Natalie reassured him. "We like our men to be fancied. What we do not like is for them to fancy others. That is when you risk wandering into the realm of sudden and violent death.
Rowan Coleman
#59. I have a dream like everyone elses in this universe may have and i always ask myself 'Am i strong enough to face my destiny? Smart enough to face my problems? Brave enough to face my fears? And stupid enough to risk my life?' If it would be 'No' then, 'Disapointed' but if 'Yes' then, 'So be it'.
Russ
#60. You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you'd run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat - coward!
Homer
#61. Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
Jonathan Turley
#62. Peace talk when war is impending is hazardous for the talker, and in war time it is criminal. War talk in peace time, which is infinitely more wicked, runs no risk at all.
Charles Clayton Morrison
#63. What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.
Albert Einstein
#64. I have no complaints about losing money I put in high-risk investments. I did some of that when I had real money; my informed choice, my measured gamble.
Elayne Boosler
#65. You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#66. watch William's beloved sport, but to him televised football was no more interesting, or even narratively intelligible, than a flea circus, so he got up and went to the kitchenette to do the other stations of the Yuletide cross.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#67. No business in the economy has the easy money that banks get to play with ... The existence of banks with single digit amounts of equity is a completely unhealthy existence
that is not only a risk for the banks, but for all of us.
Anat R. Admati
#68. No one dared agree with her. She was temperamental in the best of times, and pregnancy wasn't one of them. No one wanted to risk their neck, not when her apron said it all: K*SS MY *SS - Would you like to buy a vowel?
Jill Shalvis
#69. In my opinion half the people who spend their lives avoiding being run over by buses had much better be run over and put safely out of the way. They're no good.
Agatha Christie
#70. No expectations mean there is no risk of disappointment.
Jude Morgan
#71. Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.
Debbi Fields
#72. The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
Bruce Coville
#73. Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly
so every stretch won't feel like your first.
Gina Greenlee
#75. Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting at your desk for the next 20 years.
David Rubenstein
#76. If you are able to say "no" when it is convenient and inconvenient, and you can control your flesh and die to yourself for the sake of the will of God, then you are really already a great person.
Sunday Adelaja
#77. I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.
Michael J. Fox
#78. The proposal is frequently made that the government ought to assume the risks that are "too great for private industry." This means that bureaucrats should be permitted to take risks with the tax payer's money that no one is willing to take with his own.
Henry Hazlitt
#79. And she was okay with this not because she was a bad person, but because there was no alternative.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#80. Playing it safe and taking no risks is a shortcut to poverty
Jordan Belfort
#81. To retire is not to flee, and there is no wisdom in waiting when danger outweighs hope, and it is the part of wise men to preserve themselves to-day for to-morrow, and not risk all in one day.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#82. There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.
Gina McCarthy
#83. The reason we can say anything we want in America is that we know it makes no difference.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#84. There was no decision to make, really. When, against all odds, the miraculous happened and the spaceship landed for you and the hatch opened, you got on. The end. It didn't even matter if you would wind up as food or taken on a trip to the stars. Some things were worth the risk.
Eli Easton
#85. There is no such thing as high returns without risk.
Gerry Schwartz
#86. As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I've learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.
Mark Batterson
#87. Venture capitalists' job is to invest in risky projects. But after shying away from risk for years, VCs finally found there was no longer anybody willing to found a risk-taking company.
Anonymous
#88. A public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside ... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?
Jodi Picoult
#89. To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.
Oliver Goldsmith
#90. There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
Neil Simon
#91. Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.
Ron Paul
#92. If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.
Kathleen Turner
#93. The reality of his predicament hit him hard. There's no way out of this now, save arrest or death. Professor Ratib had made it sound so academic, but it wasn't. Regardless of whether we're attacking human- or infrastructure-related targets, it's terrorism. If Husam thinks that I'm a risk, I'm dead.
Christian F. Burton
#94. Lovers may kill their own love story for no other reason than that they are unable to tolerate the uncertainty, the sheer risk, that their experiment in happiness has delivered
Alain De Botton
#95. If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk.
John Tesh
#96. Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be happy no matter what you do?
Cassandra Clare
#97. The person who takes no chances generally must take whatever is left over after others have finished choosing. Overcaution is as bad, if not worse, than lack of caution. Both should be avoided. Life will always contain an element of chance. Not to win is not a sin. But not to try is a tragedy.
Venita VanCaspel
#98. North Korea has survived as the Impossible State because no one on the inside is empowered to overthrow it, and no one on the outside cares enough to risk the costs of changing it.
Victor Cha
#99. She begins to feel that the reality show is the university she never attended. Vicarious reality. Emotion without a value-added tax. Movement without danger. Alma finds her reality. She no longer has a reason to put herself at risk and go out into the hostile, degrading world.
Carlos Fuentes
#100. Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.
Victor Hugo
