Risk Quotes

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

~ Brené Brown

Just remember, you never know what's possible until you risk finding out.

~ Jasinda Wilder

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

~ Francis Chan

How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what's the point in trying to have a life?

~ Colleen Houck

There's never any great risk as long as you have money.

~ E.m. Forster

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

~ Brennan Manning

...I don't want security - to be self-assured - I want to risk my heart in making your portrait and be paid the wages of your devotion...

~ John Geddes

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

People play small for lots of reasons, but at the core of them all is fear. Playing small means playing safe—avoiding risk, failure, criticism, and the list goes on. But just imagine how incredibly different the world would be if everyone committed to playing big—taking on audacious goals, trying to make a meaningful difference, being all they could possibly be.

~ Margie Warrell

He's a conundrum- and there's still a piece missing from the puzzle. Whatever that piece was, there was a part of me telling me not to get involved- that it was too much to handle. That you shouldn't go out on a limb unless you're absolutely sure the limb can support your weight.

~ Neal Shusterman

Do you still insist on telling the truth even though you know that it could destroy this world?

~ Toba Beta

Any way, is better than no way at all.

~ Anthony Liccione

A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.

~ Erica Bauermeister

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

~ Orrin Woodward

...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.

~ Nate Silver

Your “everybody” probably represents even a smaller proportion of the population than your Rolodex. Psychologists have documented that our typical everybody— to which they refer as the “generalized other”—is usually a collection of about five or six people.

~ Margie Warrell

When there's nothing left to save, there's nothing left to lose.

~ T.s. Welti

Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall.

~ David Gemmell

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

~ Ray Kroc

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

~ Thorstein Veblen

They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.

~ Mike Marsh

We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.

~ Renato Dulbecco

Hope is a risk that must be run.

~ Georges Bernanos

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

~ Stephen Hawking

We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

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

~ Maxwell Maltz

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

~ Dan Quayle

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.

~ André Malraux

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

~ Lupita Nyong'o

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

~ John W. Gardner

The only risk of failure is promotion.

~ Scott Adams

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

~ Dee Dee Myers

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking.

~ Ben Bernanke

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

~ Rick Perry

I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.

~ Kimbal Musk

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

~ Al Gore

So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

~ Jeremy Irons

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

~ Gail Sheehy

For market discipline to constrain risk effectively, financial institutions must be allowed to fail. Under optimal financial regulatory and financial system infrastructures, such a failure would not threaten the overall system.

~ Henry Paulson