Risk Quotes - Page 6

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

You will never be stylish if you don't take risks.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.

We always have to ask ourselves whether the level of risk is worth the story. What is bravery, and what is bravado?

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

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.

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security.

At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious.

The biggest risk of all is not taking one.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.

Where's the fun without a bit of risk?

With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.