
Top 100 Why Not Take A Risk Quotes
#1. The ideal of the military hero is clearly echoed in other contexts, and it includes those who routinely risk their health and lives in the line of duty, such as police officers, firefighters, and paramedics.
Philip G. Zimbardo
#2. A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
Lisa Bonet
#3. 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
#4. If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.
Anne Stuart
#5. The greater the risk, the bigger the reward.
Anonymous
#6. In times of political confusion, and under an arbitrary government, many will prefer to keep their capital inactive, concealed, and unproductive, either of profit or gratification, rather than run the risk of its display. This latter evil is never felt under a good government.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#7. A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.
Andy Stanley
#8. One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
#9. Twenty Million New Customers Are Worth Taking a Risk For
Howard Schultz
#10. Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
Zhang Jindong
#11. The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.
Malcolm Forbes
#12. I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.
Ernst Haas
#13. For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S.I.V.'s - I didn't see any of that coming until it happened.
Janet Yellen
#14. Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
#15. Those who don't want to take risks in life end up been the losers.
Sunday Adelaja
#17. In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting him out of his misery - a misery that by sophomore year of college was indistinguishable from everybody else's.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#19. Playful arising is authorized by both risk and trust in the process and in oneself. To be truly playful and improvisational one must not look for results.
Joshua L. Goldberg
#20. So may I, blind fortune leading me,
Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving.
William Shakespeare
#22. Sex with a stranger makes you feel decadent, a risk taker, young again. Sex with a stranger is life on the edge. Everything else is life wrapped in cotton wool.
Chloe Thurlow
#23. If you want an answer, you'll have to risk the question.
Catherine Bybee
#24. Down Time's quaint stream
Without an oar
We are enforced to sail
Our Port a secret
Our Perchance a Gale
What Skipper would
Incur the Risk
What Buccaneer would ride
Without a surety from the Wind
Or schedule of the Tide
Emily Dickinson
#25. With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt ... because love is an amazing feeling.
Britney Spears
#26. Once upon a time, there lived a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really the story was: Once upon a time, there lived a boy, and his fear ate him alive.
Maggie Stiefvater
#27. Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.
Bill Johnson
#28. How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?
Cesare Pavese
#29. You really don't get how amazing you are, do you? Well let me make it really clear for you - so amazing that I would risk everything, just to let you know. Just to tell you I love you, Sergei. I love you. I love you more than my life
Charlotte Stein
#30. The people that lend you money basically give you an answer based on the risk that they are willing to take. But just because a bank is willing to take a particular risk doesn't mean that that is the right amount for me to spend.
Dan Ariely
#31. I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.
Lynn Abbey
#32. Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
Shirley Hufstedler
#33. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
#34. A risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.
Joel Salatin
#35. The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more - if more should be required - the future of human civilization is at stake.
Al Gore
#36. 'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'
Benjamin Carson
#37. Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.
Janet Morris
#38. Practise your confidence tricks on the street and you risk getting shot by trigger-happy security guards; do it in the office and you get put on the board.
James Scudamore
#39. You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.
Martina Boone
#40. I was twenty one years old and I thought, here I am my health is at risk, my life is going to go down hill from here and I really had to have a look in the mirror to see what the cause was of that and the cause of that was me.
John Assaraf
#41. We're in the business not so much of being contrarians deliberately, but rather we like to take perceived risk instead of actual risk. And what I mean by that is that you get paid for taking a risk that people think is risky, you particularly don't get paid for taking actual risk.
Wilbur Ross
#42. 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
#43. Most people and most organizations can't stand the uncertainty and the risk of real innovation. Learning and creating are inherently vulnerable. There's never enough certainty. People want guarantees.
Brene Brown
#44. Leaders are the ones who have the courage to go first, to put themselves at personal risk to open a path for others to follow.
Simon Sinek
#45. There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
Elisabeth Elliot
#46. He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.
Lloyd Alexander
#47. If we don't risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.
John Bevere
#48. When we take ourselves too seriously, we are at the risk of taking other things, including God, too lightly,
James Martin
#49. First, we did rank everybody by risk, and New York comes out number one.
Michael Chertoff
#50. I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.
Nora Roberts
#51. You would be derailing your life voluntarily out of fear that it might become ruined by chance. Or you could pick up and move on. Those were the only choices.
Nicole Bernier
#52. Structured settlements are a common way for people who have been injured to receive an insurance payout. The periodic payments provide ongoing income and reduce the risk of blowing a lump sum through poor financial choices.
Suze Orman
#53. Sometimes people misunderstand being scared and cautious. The former is when you are intimidated into the state of anxiety and confusion, while the later is when you acknowledge a risk but undoubtedly expecting positive outcome.
Uzoma Nnadi
#54. Every breath is a risk. Love is why we breathe
Lisa Genova
#55. They'd come for you, and this time they'd come with weapons.
I was afraid of that. For you. But not of you.
Never afraid of you.
Julio Alexi Genao
#56. The association with allergies also serves to imply a genetic predisposition for the illness, and this can help to predict who may be at risk for developing CFIDS.
David S. Bell
#57. Most of us are busy gambling on the most dangerous risk of all - living our whole life not doing what we want on the bet that we can buy the freedom to do it later.
Jake Ducey
#58. Risk is important to me as a writer, reader, and editor. I love stories that take a premise or style that seems unlikely to succeed, whose first paragraphs risk a raised eyebrow or groan, and whose last paragraphs are then all that much sweeter a triumph. Basically, I love being proved wrong.
Caitlin Horrocks
#59. A funny thing about charisma: the same people who can make you feel an inch tall can also make you feel huge, fortified, sometimes almost simultaneously.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#60. If you eliminate the junk food, you don't really run the risk of gaining weight if you've got a good workout routine.
Joe Bastianich
#61. If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.
Jack Welch
#62. I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change
John C. Maxwell
#63. What was the use of being grown up if you couldn't take a little risk now and then?
William Bowen
#64. Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.
Mark Slouka
#65. This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!
Oliver DeMille
#66. In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain ... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk ...
Graham Sutherland
#67. I believe that every conversation you have is an invitation to risk revealing the real you.
Keith Ferrazzi
#68. The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
Chuck Palahniuk
#69. Life is to be lived as a magnificent adventure, or not at all.
Helen Keller
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it.
Astro Teller
#73. You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous.
Shia Labeouf
#74. Maybe love is a risk, but it's a risk I'm willing to take and as you said, it's not a choice. I never thought I would, never thought I could love someone like that but I fell in love with you. I fought it. It's the first battle I didn't mind losing.
Cora Reilly
#75. The reason so many intelligent and creative people suffer from depression is that when you take the risk of being fully conscious, you open Pandora's box, and you can't close it again.
Michael Redhill
#76. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#77. 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
#78. For some reason surfing ... I'm not scared of the ocean so the risk doesn't seem as great to me.
John Slattery
#79. Had music not delivered Richard, too, on more than one occasion, from a life he'd believed himself trapped in? The tempos had changed, but that almost didn't matter. The point, now as then, was to tune in to something bigger than yourself, and to feel around you others who felt as you did.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#80. Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.
Sam Walton
#81. How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
Tom Robbins
#82. Grow or Die - Don't let your fear of uncertainty keep you from achieving your dreams, it is far riskier to stagnate.
Malti Bhojwani
#83. Successful business people became successful because they took risks. The biggest risk is that once successful, they stop taking risks.
G.R. Gopinath
#85. As I understand it, miracles come to those who risk defeat in seeking them. They come to those who have exhausted themselves completely in a struggle to accomplish the impossible.
Mark Helprin
#86. 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
#87. You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be-to take a risk and enjoy your life-is all that matters.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#88. The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..
Paul Theroux
#89. America is still a free country - nobody is saying it isn't - but we accept that, in the face of discernible risk, or even imaginable risk, the government has an obligation to step in and save us.
Patrick Bedard
#90. You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.
Judith McNaught
#92. Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm ( ... At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.
John Yudkin
#93. Some people said, "we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this". The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.
Eileen Collins
#94. Every time you used, it was a risk searching for a high just like the first time, a high you would never find again.
Bob Pastorella
#95. Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead
too afraid to live, only waiting, never taking a risk
I am as good as dead already.
Joe Meno
#96. It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
Rachel Weisz
#97. The foundation is an instrument forged by citizens who transfer profit from the commercial sector and put it directly to work as risk capital for the general betterment of the society.
Richard Cornuelle
#98. Temporary feelings of regret are a normal part of the mourning process. This helps us retrieve our lost dreams. If we hold on to regret, we risk trapping ourselves in a prison of unrealized dreams from which it is difficult to escape.
Barbara De Angelis
#99. I'm a firm believer in taking risks in life, because you'll never get anywhere unless you do, and the more risk involved the greater the outcome
or the worse, but you never know so you've got to go for it.
Famke Janssen
#100. What's life without a little risk? Sometimes you have to gamble to achieve greatness, and it's stupid to let fear of the unknown stop you from achieving your maximum potential.
Jaycee DeLorenzo
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