Quotes about Risk

And I reckon this is jut my lice, too, the other said. 'But I know now why it is,' Byron things. 'It is because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll cling to trouble he's used to before he'll risk a change. Yes. A man will talk about how he'd like to escape from living folks. But it's the dead folks that do him the damage. It's the dead ones that lay quiet in one place and dont try to hold him, that he cant escape from.

You cannot swim for new horizons unless you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

It is like a general informing his soldiers that it is better to keep out of battle forever than to risk a single wound. Not so are victories either over enemies or over nature gained. Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. At any rate, it seems the fittest thing for the empiricist philosopher.

If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

Creativity takes courage

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

We get some of our best results by letting fools Rush in where angels dear to tread

The time for a business man to borrow money, if ever, is when he does not need it.

If you're not willing to risk you cannot grow, and if you cannot grow you cannot become your best, and if you cannot become your best, you cannot be happy.

Domesticated males aren't much use for adventure.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.