Quotes about Risk
Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.
— Shirley Chisholm
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
— James A. Garfield
Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.
— AB Simpson
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
— John Eldredge
I don't think Lloyd's of London would insure this mouth.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
This is teenage madness.
— Travis Thrasher
To dare; that is the price of progress.
— Victor Hugo
Ladies, a second piece of advice--do not marry; marriage is a graft; it may take hold or not. Shun the risk.
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Victor Hugo
Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.
— Victor Hugo
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
— Milan Kundera