Risk Quotes

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (T. S. Eliot)
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. View quote
Jim Rohn
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. View quote
Plutarch
The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits. View quote
Michelangelo
There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform. View quote
Xenophon
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. View quote
Sallust
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. View quote
Warren Buffett
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. View quote
André Malraux
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. View quote
Robert Anthony
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good. (Ezra Pound)
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. View quote
Erica Jong
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. View quote
E. E. Cummings
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men risk theirs. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Adventure without risk is Disneyland. View quote
Douglas Coupland
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. View quote
Václav Havel
More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk. View quote
Bruce Schneier
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. View quote
Dan Quayle
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. View quote
Learned Hand
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. View quote
Voltaire
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. (John Updike)
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. View quote
Maimonides
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. View quote
Edmund Burke
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. View quote
Anne Rice
📖 Risk Proverbs