Quotes about Risk
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
— Aristotle
My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?
— Cicero
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
— Bill Gates
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.
— John Wooden
The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change.
— Zig Ziglar
I've never been afraid to fail.
— Michael Jordan
Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.
— Albert Schweitzer
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
— Washington Irving
To misunderstand the nature and threat of evil is to risk being blindsided by it.
— Joel Rosenberg