Top 100 Without Risk Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. The "public" seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke.
Jeremy Clarkson
#5. One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
Isabelle Adjani
#6. 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
#7. When Derek hesitated, Chloe said, "If you leave, either I go with you and take the same risk or stay here, with strangers. Without you."
He scowled at her.
"Yes, it's a low blow," she said. "But I'll use whatever works right now."
Kelley Armstrong
#8. Steady and righteous we may be, my friend, but without courage to risk ourselves for our brother, we are but politicians - blustering whores to rhetoric.
Christopher Moore
#9. Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
Robert Frost
#11. What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]" from The Society of S (p. 137).
Susan Hubbard
#12. A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax ... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.
Thomas Jefferson
#13. Someone else shoved a pencil in your hand and aimed you in the direction of a burning building somewhere and told you not to come back without a quote from the fire marshall, kid, and that was it: you were a reporter.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#14. What is a star? Is stardom a kind of suspended adulthood? Is it a place beyond good and evil? Is a star a person you need to believe in--a daredevil, a risk-taker, a person who goes close to the edge without falling?
Kim Gordon
#15. Stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention. Concentrate on this flower and allow the real "I" to reveal itself.
Paulo Coelho
#16. Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#17. When that happens - when risk is taken and the filmmakers dive into the subject matter without a parachute - very often what you get it something with those qualities that make it age well with the public.
Francis Ford Coppola
#18. Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten.
Kami Garcia
#20. Have you had this place inspected?" he asked. "The house is ready to fall off its timbers. I couldn't risk coming in here without offering a quick prayer to Butyakengo."
"Who?"
"A Gypsy protective spirit." He smiled at her. "But now that I'm here, I'll take my chances.
Lisa Kleypas
#21. You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the "business value of risk management.
Pearl Zhu
#22. Leaving Iraq without military assistance during its transition, and before it is stable enough to ensure its own citizens' security, would pose a tremendous risk. We must complete our mission.
Doc Hastings
#23. I was doing experimental noise-based music and I learned a number of things about performance. I was playing small shows - sometimes without a PA - where people couldn't really hear me so I relied a lot on physicality and a sense of discomfort and risk.
Erika M. Anderson
#24. For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
Soren Kierkegaard
#25. 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
#26. Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.
Paulo Coelho
#27. The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.
Armand Salacrou
#28. Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.
Osho
#29. Too many people are frightened. They want youth to last. They complain bitterly if sickness comes. But the world is always in tumult, and fortunes rise and fall and fail. It is the ambitious who accomplish things. It takes courage to be ambitious, for never was anything great achieved without risk.
Jeff Wheeler
#30. You live like this long enough, a life without chances, you lose your bearings. A life without danger. A life without the risk of Now. In any event, what do I need with Now? Now, I think, is overrated. Now hasn't been working out so great for me. Now never has.
Charles Yu
#31. My willingness to explore and work freely is not without risk, and at times, I find myself caught in a bind ... Knowing I can fix whatever goes wrong allows me to paint, not without thought, but without hesitation.
Brian Johnson
#32. Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#34. There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, Garcon! Un Pernod!
Aleister Crowley
#35. It was a great gift which the National Socialist Party had given to the men of the SS, that they could go into battle without physical risk, that they could achieve honor without the contingencies that plagued the whole business of being shot at.
Thomas Keneally
#36. Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.
Garth Brooks
#37. There is no such thing as high returns without risk.
Gerry Schwartz
#38. If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [ ... ] - all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.
M. Scott Peck
#39. Without absence in our lives, we risk fooling ourselves into believing that things (a message from a lover, the performance of a song, the face of a human body) matter less. De
Michael Harris
#40. But you can't find love if you're not willing to lose it. You can't find happiness if you're not willing to risk being sad. And you can't find the love of your life without risking breaking your heart.
Kunal Nayyar
#42. 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
#43. Was it worth it?" she sighed "I have found it is always worth fighting for what we believe in, regardless of the outcome. Risk is never without consequence.
C.W. Gortner
#44. A life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance.
Courtney Milan
#45. Michael was a purveyor of exotics, a typical anthropologist, a cultural orphan who sought other cultures he could love without risk or pain.
Toni Morrison
#46. One doesn't accept bad challenges. Part of it is always the risk-taking without seeing that the risks are rational and the rewards are commensurate.. are more than commensurate.. with the risks.
Sumner Redstone
#47. I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.
Allen Ginsberg
#48. Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#49. It was Jamie's fear that he would lose her - that she would go, swing out into a dark and solitary space without him, unless he could somehow bind her to him, keep her with him. But, Christ, what a risk to take - with a woman so shocked and brutalized, how could he risk it?
Diana Gabaldon
#50. Our novice runs the risk of failure without additional traits: a strong inclination toward originality, a taste for research, and a desire to experience the incomparable gratification associated with the act of discovery itself.
Santiago Ramon Y Cajal
#52. If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.
David Viscott
#53. The Internet has the capacity to extend to us genuine choice, and that is not without risk. Real power does entail real responsibility.
Nick Harkaway
#54. Perhaps, however, music retains a survival role in adults in that it allows the 'practice' of feeling emotions without having to risk the consequences of acting on these emotions.
Isabelle Peretz
#55. What would our lives be like without tests, odds against us, adventure, risk?
Richard Bach
#56. This doesn't work. Being apart destroys us. I can't live without you Blake. I can barely survive a night without you. How am I supposed to risk losing you for a lifetime?
Meredith Wild
#58. To love someone so deeply is to risk losing yourself forever. Once I admitted my feelings to him, there was no going back - no hope to ever make my heart complete without him
J.C. Reed
#59. No on should pass an American in uniform without saying "Thank you, we are grateful." Always mindful that they are prepared to risk all their dreams so that all of us can reach ours.
William Cohen
#60. I discovered that I could take a risk and survive. I could march in Philadelphia. I could go out in the street and be gay evenin a dress or a skirt without getting shot. Each victory gave me courage for the next one.
Martha Shelley
#61. I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
Jasper Fforde
#62. Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
Alastair Reynolds
#65. Today we must begin again. Step by small step, without any more protection than comes from our own bodies.
Eduardo Galeano
#66. Maybe sometimes you have to take a risk without worrying about the potential disaster.
Eileen Cook
#67. You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
George Bernard Shaw
#68. What would you risk dying for - and for whom - is perhaps the most profound question a person can ask themselves. The vast majority of people in modern society are able to pass their whole lives without ever having to answer that question, which is both an enormous blessing and a significant loss.
Sebastian Junger
#69. Diversifying your investments allows you to earn greater returns without taking on more risk, or equivalently to take less risk without sacrificing any returns.
Alex Frey
#70. Love is the most valuable currency of life which you can spend as much as you want without the risk of bankruptcy.
Debasish Mridha
#71. When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action.
Gregory David Roberts
#72. Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
Alain Badiou
#73. It's hard to send your baby off on a plane without you, though that's less reasonable, because sending him off in a car is statistically a bigger risk.
Carolyn Hax
#75. There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.
Dave Barry
#76. What I'm getting at here is that you can be entrepreneurial without being an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial people are passionate about what they do, comfortable taking risks, and quick at moving on from failures.
Sophia Amoruso
#77. There is no growth without risk. There is always something to be gained from any experience. It is up to us to interpret our truth of self.
Truth Devour
#79. Being in love is one of the greatest feelings in the world. You risk your heart, but it has to be better than going through life without it at all.
Brooke Cumberland
#80. With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.
Annie Jacobsen
#81. I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."
Joan Miro
#82. We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#83. Who can listen to a story of loneliness and despair without taking the risk of experiencing similar pains in his own heart and even losing his precious peace of mind? In short: Who can take away suffering without entering it?
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#84. Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous.
Vironika Tugaleva
#85. It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.
Margaret Stohl
#86. Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down,
Pope Francis
#87. To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position.
James Davison Hunter
#90. Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be remedied.
Herman Melville
#91. Over the years she'd found that that was all it took, that lazy smile, and she could tell the truth without risk of being believed.
Laini Taylor
#92. Because what's life
Without happiness
And where's happiness
Without risk
Dennis Sharpe
#93. It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Louis D. Brandeis
#94. Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.
Bill Johnson
#95. Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.
Will Smith
#96. if you are willing to enter his private world and see the way life appears to him, without any attempt to make evaluative judgments, you run the risk of being changed yourself.
Carl R. Rogers
#97. The United Nations emerged as a temple of official good intentions, a place where governments might - without abating their transgressions - go to church; a place made remote - by agreed untruth and procedural complexity, and by tedium itself - from the risk of intense public involvement.
Shirley Hazzard
#98. There is a fine line deep within the mind that makes self-belief and confidence, the defining elements of success and failure in any circumstance. How we learn to activate them without running the risk of lying to ourselves is the key that unlocks the superhuman lying dormant within us.
David Amerland
#99. Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.
Diane Ackerman
#100. But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.
Tamera Alexander
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