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Quotes about Risk

Living might mean taking chances, but they're worth taking. Loving might be a mistake. but its worth making
— Reba McEntire
To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.
— John Hurt
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
— John Donne
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
— Thomas Jefferson
Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt of himself to enjoy them.
— GK Chesterton
A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his whole body to irresistible destruction.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our condition as men is risky and ticklish enough. One can not be sure of himself and his fortune an hour, but he may be whisked off into some pitiable or ridiculous plight.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.
— Henry David Thoreau
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
— Albert Einstein
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
— Edmund Hillary