The Risk Quotes

#1. There are some friends you don't risk for your own peace of mind. Some things ... at the time it wasn't worth the risk of losing him.

Abigail Roux

#2. If you are ready to cry..to feel the pain..to take the risk? You are ready for love

Kiran Joshi

#3. You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

Earl Nightingale

#4. We Americans know - although others appear to forget - the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#5. The risk is worth it. Mike would have been the first to say that.

Richard Branson

#6. One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also runs the risk of setting out in a completely erroneous direction. Surely the important thing isn't the length of our steps, but that the objective is clear.

Angela Merkel

#7. The world changes! So we're in a situation today where the only policymakers that have flexibility are central banks. But they don't have the instruments! So they've had to experiment, and the more you experiment, the more uncertainty and the higher the risk of collateral damage.

Mohamed El-Erian

#8. When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.

Timothy Snyder

#9. The book is the precious material expression of a past emotion, or the chance of having one in years to come, and to get rid of it would bring the risk of a serious sense of loss. (p. 28)

Jacques Bonnet

#10. A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.

Craig Hodges

#11. There's rule changes every year. I do wish, however, that the NFL did have a voice from the players' side, whether it's our players' union president, or team captains, or our executive committee on the players' side. Because we're the guys that realize the risk; we're the guys on the field.

Troy Polamalu

#12. You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.

Mae Jemison

#13. There is always the risk of being over-confident when you are preparing to face a weaker player.

Viswanathan Anand

#14. Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for ... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

Robert Winston

#15. You cannot grow and expand your capabilities without running the risk of failure.

Dean Karnazes

#16. If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one who is not willing to try charity, to try non-resistance as the saint is always willing, can tell whether these methods will or will not succeed.

William James

#17. A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

John Sununu

#18. You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what's going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.

Charlie Day

#19. I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.

John Lydon

#20. When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

Paul Prudhomme

#21. There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

William S. Burroughs

#22. I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.

Shakira

#23. If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. Life Insurance is a mitigation to the risk of your life
Financial Freedom is a mitigation to the risk of living your life !!
Choice has always been yours.

Manoj Arora

#25. The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Benjamin Cardozo

#26. Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful - but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never see, never experience, never know. The risk of pain and loss was a part of living.

Jim Butcher

#27. One bite, Caleb, that's all it will take.' 'Once more inside you could be all it takes,' he whispered in her ear, making her stomach flip. 'Right now, I'm willing to take the risk. Are you?

Lindsay J. Pryor

#28. I think given the choice between loving Mare - betrayal included - and never knowing her, I'd chose love. I risked, and I lost, but the risk was still worth it.

Brandon Sanderson

#29. In order to succeed, you have to live dangerously.. as long as the danger is rationally accepted and as long as the rewards far outweigh the risk.

Sumner Redstone

#30. The risk of racial prejudice infecting a capital sentencing proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence.

Byron White

#31. Regin had known the risk in coming here, but she wasn't fearful. As Lucia had also told her, "Sometimes I don't think you have the sense to be afraid when you should." Regin had interpreted that to mean, "You have no sense of fear, oh, great Reginleit.

Kresley Cole

#32. The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of indulging it; a man who sees the possibility opening before him and does not try to grasp it, even at the risk of destroying himself and his country, is either

Simone Weil

#33. My dreams may be nonsense too,but I do not want to run the risk of not following them

Anamika Mishra

#34. There are scores of studies demonstrating that a diet rich in vegetables and fruits reduces the risk of dying from all the Western diseases; in countries where people eat a pound or more of vegetables and fruits a day, the rate of cancer is half what is in the United States.

Michael Pollan

#35. Everything you do in a patient's room, after he is 'put up' for the night, increases tenfold the risk of his having a bad night. But, if you rouse him up after he has fallen asleep, you do not risk - you secure him a bad night.

Florence Nightingale

#36. The risk of pollution exists for the infosphere as it does for the atmosphere. Freedom of the infosphere should thus become a law, and the Bible needs to have an 11th commandment: Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's data.

Hubert Burda

#37. The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love

Hilary Stanton Zunin

#38. In the Dodge City of romantic love, crowded with betrayal, abandonment and rejection, it was better to fire first than to take the risk of being gunned down.

Edward St. Aubyn

#39. Vanity should never tempt a player to engage in a combat at the risk of loss of health. It is bad enough to lose without the additional annoyance of paying doctors' bills.

Emanuel Lasker

#40. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Joyce Brothers

#41. I have since become convinced that when we define ourselves by our wounds, we burden and lose our physical and spiritual energy and open ourselves to the risk of illness.

Caroline Myss

#42. The diversity is the risk of war, the necessity of diversity is mutual respect

Tariq Ramadan

#43. Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way ..

Christopher Hitchens

#44. The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

Robert Anton Wilson

#45. We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could

Robert Frost

#46. Mainly, it's not that there are things you can't say. It's that there are things you can't say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.

Oliver Burkeman

#47. If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming Egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid.

Pope Francis

#48. You want to provide as many opportunities and help rural schools as much as you can. But you can't do it at the risk of affecting any of the quality standards and educational opportunities for any child, regardless of where they live and regardless of what the size of their school is.

Mike Beebe

#49. Liability limit has become a symbol of corporate greed in passing the risk of disaster to the U.S. government and U.S. citizens.

Marvin Ammori

#50. Indolent and unworthy the beggar may be - but that is not your concern: It is better, said Joseph Smith, to feed ten impostors than to run the risk of turning away one honest petition.

Hugh Nibley

#51. Low levels of vitamin D in older people can double the risk of developing dementia in later life, according to one of the biggest studies of its kind into the nutritional supplement.

Anonymous

#52. When God stirs our spirit or breaks our heart, we cannot sit back. We've got to step up and step in. We've got to go all in by going all out. But if we have the courage to make the choice or take the risk, it will become the defining moment of our lives.

Mark Batterson

#53. What we can do now is contribute to a clearer understanding of what happened that day on Everest in the hope that the lessons to be learned will reduce the risk for others who, like us, take on the challenge of the mountains.

Anatoli Boukreev

#54. In terms of sources coming forward, I really reject this idea of talking about one, two, three sources. There are many sources that have informed the reporting we've done and I think that Americans owe them a debt of gratitude for taking the risk they do.

Laura Poitras

#55. When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#56. I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren't willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.

Dan Pearce

#57. If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

Alberto Juantorena

#58. We can't predict what's going to happen, but having love is worth the risk.

Nina Crespo

#59. There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.

Lynsey Addario

#60. Any investment bought via credit always runs the risk of margin calls and, eventually, liquidation.

Barry Ritholtz

#61. Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

Anatole France

#62. The danger of Christians reading the Bible confessionally is that we run the risk of reading alone.

Ellen F. Davis

#63. If you really want to live your life to the fullest and realize your greatest potential, you must be willing to run the risk of making some people mad. People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!

Iyanla Vanzant

#64. When you rest on your laurels is right when you have the risk. It exists for every company, no matter how big.

David Sze

#65. 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.

Susan RoAne

#66. Love is always dangerous. To love is to hope you'll win it all while running the risk that you could lose it all. And sometimes it's also about accepting that there's a risk that you'll love more than you are loved.

Guillaume Musso

#67. It takes bravery to care for someone - no matter who he is or what made him, whether he is weak or walking or jumping out of windows. The risk involved is enormous.

Deb Olin Unferth

#68. At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.

Brendan Myers

#69. Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done.

Lou Adler

#70. Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.

Arvid Carlsson

#71. We stand the risk of failure, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

Sunday Adelaja

#72. If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

Antonio Munoz Molina

#73. Military debriefs have a similar purpose. We can all fail but we all need to learn from failure. We need to manage the size of the risk, and we need to give people the environment to succeed without being constrained by fear of failure.

Damian McKinney

#74. Every time you sustain a head injury, the risk gets higher and higher. I always said that if there ever was a point where the risk was more than minimal, I would stop playing.

Pat LaFontaine

#75. I think love is a rare thing in the World. If you think you have it with this Girl, then fuck whoever tries to stop you and fuck their Rules. Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.

James Frey

#76. To understand the world, one's place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning.

Kevin Powers

#77. But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.

C.S. Lewis

#78. We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It's absurd. We run the risk of warping what's best in us

Andre Gide

#79. The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.

Ban Ki-moon

#80. I didn't cry when I left free-booting, smash-and-grab papers that would have appeared to be far more natural homes for me and, at the risk of being vulgar, paid far better for my services.

Julie Burchill

#81. In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yossi Vardi

#82. I think people are afraid of either failing or succeeding. It takes courage to feel the fear and feel the risk.

John Assaraf

#83. Similar to Churchill's view that "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried," although it is by no means a bulletproof theory, the CAPM is the best theory to explain the risk/return relationship that the greatest financial minds have been able to devise.

Matthew Krantz

#84. Listening is hard, as my friend once said, because you run the risk of having to change the way you see the world.

Zia Haider Rahman

#85. Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.

Alice McDermott

#86. The smart strategist allows strategy to be shaped by events. Good reactions can make great strategy. Strategy involves competition of goals, and the risk is the difference between those goals and the ability of the organization to achieve them. So part of the risk is created by the strategy.

Max McKeown

#87. The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

A.R. Ammons

#88. Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#89. The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.

Evan Esar

#90. I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves, 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly; we either overstate it or understate it.

Hillary Clinton

#91. I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

Mark Twain

#92. Maybe that was why it was almost always the underclasses, the women, the people of color, the gay people, the ones who were already stigmatized as being vulnerable, availble, trapped by the body, who took the risk of the wire.

Melissa Scott

#93. I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

Gian Carlo Menotti

#94. They all need the others to say, yes, yes, this is what we should be doing, it's worth the risk. And now that they've decided it, the decision is bigger than all of them. Not one of them could turn back on their own.

Robin Hobb

#95. If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

George W. Bush

#96. They knew what they were doing. They had counted the cost. They had measured the risk. They were well aware what the outcome of their actions would be unless God miraculously intervened, as in fact he did.

J.I. Packer

#97. Take the time to dream and take the risk to realize your dreams!

Tom Golway

#98. I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded.

Kevin Spacey

#99. Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

Aesop

#100. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death

Walter Willett