Risk Quotes

"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one."
-Voltaire

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."
-Storm Jameson

"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."
-Oscar Wilde

"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
-John F. Kennedy

"If you don't risk anything you risk even more."
-Erica Jong

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
-George S. Patton

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."
-Pierre Corneille

"First weigh the considerations, then take the risks."
-Helmuth von Moltke

"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."
-Benjamin Cardozo

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
-Joaquin Setanti

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-Anais Nin

"What you risk reveals what you value."
-Jeanette Winterson

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
-Katherine Mansfield

"If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances."
-Julia Sorel

"I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go."
-Lillian Carter

"Life is a risk."
-Diane Von Furstenberg

"If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough."
-Tom Krause

"People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing."
-Warren Buffett

"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all."
-John Updike

"The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all."
-Jawaharlal Nehru

"I don't see much risk of a blow out in financial credit spreads any time soon. The balance of risk favors some widening but I expect only slight moderation in 2006."
-John Atkinson

"When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given."
-Barbara Sher

"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it."
-Andrew Jackson

"We've produced CDs of our own over the years. But this is a real record contract. Collectables is taking the risk."
-George Carlin

"We concluded that with regard to the risk of mad cow disease, the difference between Japanese beef and meat from American cattle aged 20 months or below is very small."
-Yasuhiro Yoshikawa

"There's a tendency for people to think 'it'll never happen to me, ... The fact is, it could: we just don't know when. People in this country cannot afford to be complacent about flood risk."
-Barbara Young

"It was a bit of a risk. But we all came to the conclusion it was time to put a public face on this. So I agreed to do the ad."
-Dave Penry