Top 100 Risk Nothing Quotes
#1. If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
Geena Davis
#2. OUR LIVES ARE MADE OF RISKS AND REWARDS. OUR ENDEAVOURS, LOVES, AND HOPES ARE ALL PRONE TO THE GREAT RISK OF FAILURE. YET TO RISK NOTHING FOR FEAR OF FAILURE IS TO LIVE IN A SHUTTERED BOX IN A WORLD WHOSE WONDERS YOU WILL NEVER KNOW.
Mark T. Barnes
#3. 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
#4. To love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.
Leo Buscaglia
#6. After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
Albert Camus
#7. When you risk nothing you gain nothing
Sai
#8. 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
#9. And the trouble is, if you risk nothing, you risk even more ...
Erica Jong
#11. At least she's willing to figure it out, do something, risk something and take its measure. I risk nothing. I sit on a throne and identify signs of imperfection in others.
Toni Morrison
#12. Just follow your bliss, that's all you have to do. Be willing to be disappointed, for if you risk nothing, you'll have nothing worth having.
Kate McGahan
#14. The planet Earth is not in danger. She has millions of years to recover. It is the human species that, by degrading the ecosystem, is putting itself at risk. Nothing will be done to stem present developments, and it is already too late. The prognosis is negative.
Guillaume Faye
#15. War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#16. To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule. To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing.
Rene Carayol
#17. You know what happens when you don't take a risk? Nothing.
Mel Gibson
#18. The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The Person who risks nothing, has nothing and becomes nothing.
Leo Buscaglia
#19. Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises.
Rita Gelman
#22. Every year that 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 which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. - Mary Cholmondeley
Robin S. Sharma
#23. Why not believe, Syra? If in faith you risk nothing, but through faithlessness, you risk everything?
Amie Kaufman
#24. The person who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Leo Buscaglia
#25. 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
#26. This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.
Lisi Harrison
#27. You've got nothing to lose. Many people don't allow themselves to love, precisely because of that, because there are a lot of things at risk, a lot of future and a lot of past. In your case, there is only the present.
Paulo Coelho
#28. When love is a theory, it's safe, it's free of risk. But love in the brain changes nothing.
Bob Goff
#29. Waiting is a risk to something or nothing, its on your own Decision if you'll stay and still with your Patience.
Kent Ian N. Cny
#30. I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.
Ethan Hawke
#31. But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.
Anne Tyler
#32. Just having children is a risk, Kate. We are gambling on the future, investing in the unknown with nothing but hope and blind faith. How can we keep our own safe when anyone else is in danger?
Florence Engel Randall
#33. Still, however, she had the sensation of there being something more than immediately appeared, in Mr Elliot's wishing, after an interval of so many years, to be well received by them. In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance.
Jane Austen
#34. To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.
Mandy Hale
#35. At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
Danica McKellar
#36. I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.
Raymond E. Feist
#37. Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
Denis Waitley
#38. There is nothing wrong with corporations. Corporations are a good thing. But corporations should not be running our government. Corporations are good because they drive our economy, they encourage people to assemble wealth and to risk it and then create jobs.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#39. Baby, nothing is going to keep me away from you. Not your father, not the band. If it's a risk, I don't fucking care. You are worth that risk.
Karina Halle
#40. I'm proud to be British but there is nothing patriotic about a lack of a plan as to what even would happen if we came out there's nothing patriotic about putting people's jobs at risk.
Ruth Davidson
#41. If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.
Roberto Goizueta
#42. And at the risk of answering the same question the same way over and over: it's not a fucking binary. It would be easier for a lot of people if it were, but it just bloody well ain't, and nothing any of us does can make it that way. Please take a deep breath. Or,
S. Bear Bergman
#43. I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.
Louis Navellier
#44. You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.
Mike Myers
#45. In this atmosphere of doubt why was the extreme risk approved? Partly because exasperation at the failure of all her efforts at intimidation had led to an all-or-nothing state of mind and a helpless yielding like Bethmann's by the civilians to the military.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#46. I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
Denzel Washington
#47. Wishes have a way of twisting themselves, and there is nothing more dangerous than getting your heart's desire. The question is, are you willing to gamble? How much are you willing to lose? What are you willing to risk everything for?
Jessica Khoury
#48. Ultimately we have nothing to fear. Jesus loves us, and he invites us to be confident in that love. As we seek to obey Him, we are not called to assess the risk involved and determine whether or not obedience will be beneficial or safe for us. We are simply called to trust and obey.
Dan Baumann
#49. Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.
Emraan Hashmi
#51. This is the perennial danger which besets semiotics: what with man being preeminently the sign-using creature, and what with man using signs in everything that he does, semiotics runs the risk of being about everything and hence about nothing.
Walker Percy
#52. Nought venture, nought have.
[Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
John Heywood
#53. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#54. Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man accepted the dangers, the element of chance. If he didn't, he won nothing.
John Jakes
#55. I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the way of American politics, where the Whitewater investigation lasted virtually the whole of the two terms of the Clinton administration but turned up nothing.
Jonathan Powell
#56. You have what it takes! Believe! You are the one with the dream. You own it. And you will walk through the open doors. Nothing can stop you.. Risk, even if you make mistakes. So live with faith and abandon. Have some fun. You are being carried ...
Evan Edwards
#57. I don't know how romantic I am, but I only know one way to love...All the way. When I love, I risk my heart. All or nothing.
Kristin Hannah
#58. When there's nothing left to save, there's nothing left to lose.
T.S. Welti
#59. Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.
George R R Martin
#60. The more you're willing to risk, the more God can use you. And if you're willing to risk everything, then there is nothing God can't do in you and through you.
Mark Batterson
#61. To love
to fall
is not a question. To touch
to kiss
to speak
those are questions. There is nothing worse than a ruined friendship. There is nothing better than a companion. Somewhere in between lies risk. Somewhere in between, lies.
David Levithan
#62. It is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public ... should be proud of being in this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life.
Leo Steinberg
#63. Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.
Rick Warren
#64. Sophia will not come. How mad he is to imagine, for a moment, that she might. Why should she risk everything for him? He can offer her nothing, only love.
Deborah Moggach
#65. If there is a widely shared concept of intentional action ... a philosophical analysis of intentional action that is wholly unconstrained by that concept runs the risk of having nothing more than a philosophical fiction as its subject matter.
Alfred Mele
#66. Love risks everything and asks for nothing.
Rumi
#67. Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing to worry about. Fact Two: Fact One applies only to cataracts on the eyes in somebody else's head.
Helene Hanff
#69. risks. Thus we take it for granted that, when a relationship to a special loved person is endangered, we are not only anxious but are usually angry as well. As responses to the risk of loss, anxiety and anger go hand in hand. It is not for nothing that they have the same etymological root.
John Bowlby
#70. As an adventurer ... I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, you have to take calculated risks; otherwise you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing.
Richard Branson
#71. So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.
Albert Mohler
#72. I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.
Eartha Kitt
#73. We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
James Hillman
#74. You have to decide whats most important to you. Keeping your pride and getting nothing or taking a risk and maybe, maybe having everything.
Dan Humphrey
#75. One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself - that is to say, risking oneself.If one cannot risk oneself, then one is spimply incapable of giving
James Baldwin
#76. For who that noght dar undertake,
Be riht he schal no profit take
[For who that dare not undertake,
By right he shall no profit take.
i.e., Nothing ventured, nothing gained.]
John Gower
#77. Until your desires are specific and completely clear, you won't be happy with the results they bring. You've got to fill in all the blanks in your description of a dream life - or risk having others fill in those blanks for you. Leave nothing to chance, and decide on everything you want.
Doreen Virtue
#78. What he had remembered was to tuck among his changes of clothes one of Regan's framed photographs of the four of them from a few summers back, at Lake Winnipesaukee. He set it up on the nightstand, as if he might swim down into the past, where nothing could go wrong.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#79. There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something" - Trammell Crow
Clyde Wolpe
#81. Its nothing,' said Horace quietly, 'but if you can think of any nicer way of a man killing himself than taking a risk for you, why that's the way I want to die.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#82. My gift is execution; when I decide I'm going to do something, I'll stop at nothing to do it. Along the way, you take a lot of risks and go for it, but you have to believe in it. You gotta believe in your idea, and lucky for me, I found a lot of success in that.
Rob Dyrdek
#83. All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.
Robert C. Solomon
#84. Some of these challenges may be foreseable, many of them may not. Some of the risks associated with a rapidly changing climate may be quantifiable, many of them may not. Doing nothing is not an option.
Mike Hulme
#85. I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.
Laura Fraser
#86. When nothing is at stake, everything's a waste.
Crystal Woods
#87. Nothing worthwhile was without risk. You had to decide whether your feelings were strong enough to make it a risk worth taking.
Mhairi McFarlane
#88. Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'
Nelson Algren
#89. This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.
Martin Buber
#91. That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.
Ray Bradbury
#92. It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
Zora Neale Hurston
#93. We did what people do. We stood side by side and smoked our little passive aggressive wishes for death, and stared down at our glory days. And then we set the world on fire, for a dream that felt so real is nothing but a risk never taken.
Victor Giannini
#94. We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born of that nothing is the beginning of truth.
Adrienne Rich
#95. The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.
Brennan Manning
#96. There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi
#97. Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.
Ken Salazar
#98. It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.
Robert Kurson
#99. We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#100. It's better to risk everything than hold on to nothing
Adrian Hadzic
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