Top 100 Without Risk Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]" from The Society of S (p. 137).
Susan Hubbard
#5. For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
Soren Kierkegaard
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. There is no such thing as high returns without risk.
Gerry Schwartz
#12. A life without risk is one where I tell myself I'm not worthy of taking a chance.
Courtney Milan
#13. 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
#14. 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
#16. 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
#18. 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
#19. Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves.
Alastair Reynolds
#20. Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
Alain Badiou
#22. There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.
Dave Barry
#23. 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
#26. 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
#27. Because what's life
Without happiness
And where's happiness
Without risk
Dennis Sharpe
#28. 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
#29. Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.
Bill Johnson
#30. Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk.
Will Smith
#32. I don't believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn't worth living.
Charles Lindbergh
#34. It's just me throwing myself at you,
romance as usual, us times us,
not lust but moxibustion,
a substance burning close
to the body as possible
without risk of immolation.
Alice Fulton
#36. There is no adventure without risk, and no exhilaration like adventure.
A.R. Ivanovich
#37. I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down
and break your neck.
Carlos Fuentes
#40. There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
Nora Roberts
#41. Without risk I have no fear, without any fear - what's the point, because I have no opportunity for success.
(Gavin Kaysen)
Chris Hill
#42. First we must understand that there can be no life without risk - and when our center is strong, everything else is secondary, even the risks.
Elie Wiesel
#43. Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.
Wil Wheaton
#44. 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
#45. The pain was the risk of commitment. But nothing worth having could be had without risk.
Dean Koontz
#46. There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
M. Scott Peck
#47. I would rather risk failure than achieve it without risk.
Millard Johnson
#51. Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
Boris Pasternak
#52. There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.
Francis Ford Coppola
#53. what? When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves. From
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#54. Nothing worthwhile was without risk. You had to decide whether your feelings were strong enough to make it a risk worth taking.
Mhairi McFarlane
#55. Criticism is a life without risk.
John Lahr
#56. A life without risk, is a life unlived my friend.
Big Time Rush
#57. There is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.
Stephen King
#58. It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#60. What is courage without risk ... It wouldn't really be courage, would it?
Jocelyn Murray
#61. There is no achievement without risk.
Gene Kranz
#62. Do you notice that, too? How all of us just want to get through life as quickly and as easily as possible? And even though we know that without risk there's no reward, we're still so scared to chance it? I'm
Penelope Douglas
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
Isabelle Adjani
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Ridley was like a beautiful snake - you couldn't let her get close without the risk of being bitten.
Kami Garcia
#78. 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
#79. You cannot manage risk, or for that matter, build a risk management capability without first understanding the "business value of risk management.
Pearl Zhu
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.
Paulo Coelho
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. Engaging in activities devoid of difficulty, lounging in risk-free zones, is life without great meaning.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
