Quotes about Risk

I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth.

This is teenage madness.

True confidence is not about hoping that you can take this risk (that's called courage) and overcome this challenge (that's perseverance); it's about realistically expecting that you can do it, based on previously demonstrated performance. A confident guy expects the woman to engage

To dare; that is the price of progress.

Ladies, a second piece of advice--do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.

Supreme resources spring from extreme resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety.

Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

She came from a land where revolutionary illusion had long since faded but where the thing he admired most in revolution remained: life on a large scale; a life of risk, daring, and the danger of death. Sabina had renewed his faith in the grandeur of human endeavour. Superimposing the painful drama of her country on her person, he found her even more beautiful.

a man has a right to fear dangers that are less than likely to occur.

The best progressive ideas are those that include a strong enough dose of provocation to make its supporters feel proud of being original, but at the same time attract so many adherents that the risk of being an isolated exception is immediately averted by the noisy approval of the triumphant crowd.