Great Risk Quotes

Faith is a record of great risks taken.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Do the hardest thing on earth for you. ACT YOURSELF.

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear. I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts.

If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal opportunity for success that made America exceptional, we're watching career politicians throw away our kids' future through bankrupting public budgets and ripping open our porous borders which, obvious to all us non-politicians, puts us at great risk.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition of financial aid, and it should be even-handed in its treatment of start-up firms like Tesla, Miles, Fisker, and others. It would be terrible to kill the entrepreneurs who have taken great risks to bring new automotive technologies to market by pumping tax dollars into the behemoths that have done everything wrong for the last years.

Missionaries in the developing world waste a lot of time and money (not to mention the goodwill of non-Christians) proselytizing to the needy. . . . While missionaries do many noble things at great risk to themselves, their dogmatism still spreads ignorance and death. By contrast, volunteers for secular organizations . . . do not waste . . . time telling people about the virgin birth of Jesus. Nor do they tell people in sub-Saharan Africa - where nearly four million people die from AIDS every year - that condom use is sinful.

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

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Take a chance! All life is a chance

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.