Quotes about Risk
I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.
— Virginia Woolf
It passed through his mind that if he missed this chance of talking to Katharine, he would have to face an enraged ghost, when he was alone in his room again, demanding an explanation of his cowardly indecision. It was better, on the whole, to risk present discomfiture than to waste an evening bandying excuses and constructing impossible scenes with this uncompromising section of himself.
— Virginia Woolf
'Twould be as much as my life was worth.
— Laurence Sterne
Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
— Charles Dickens
He comes here at the peril of his life, for the realization of his fixed idea. In the moment of realization, after all his toil and waiting, you cut the ground from under his feet, destroy his idea, and make his gains worthless to him. Do you see nothing that he might do, under the disappointment?
— Charles Dickens
The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win
— Charles Spurgeon
Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.
— Graham Greene
Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk. 869
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
— James Madison