Risk Quotes

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

~ David Walliams

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

~ Demi Moore

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

~ Brennan Manning

If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

~ Rosalynn Carter

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

~ Brené Brown

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

~ Paulo Coelho

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

~ Winston Churchill

Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril.

~ Brian Acton

Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

~ Xavier Dolan

At East Side Jews, we can take a risk because it isn't all about the rules. I started it to create a space for all those people who wouldn't go to temple because they were scared of getting the rules wrong.

~ Jill Soloway

There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.

~ Chris Hadfield

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

~ Michael J. Massimino

Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.

~ Peter Baynham

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

~ John Paul Jones

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

~ Michel Foucault

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.

~ John F. Kennedy

If I've learnt anything over the last six years it's that the most important thing is the strength of our economy. That is how we pay for our NHS, how we build schools, how we provide opportunities for people. And I'm in absolutely no doubt that our economy will be stronger if we stay in and will be weaker and at risk if we leave.

~ David Cameron

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

~ Ron Paul

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

~ Albert Einstein

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.

~ Sheldon Whitehouse

Many people assume the diseases that kill us are pre-programmed into our genes. High blood pressure by 55, heart attacks at 60, maybe cancer at 70, and so on... But for most of the leading causes of death, our genes usually account for only 10-20 per cent of risk.

~ Michael Greger

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

~ Jacqueline Cochran

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

~ Ernest Hemingway

It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one.

~ Pope Francis

Too many U.S. adults have a heart age years older than their real age, increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke. Everybody deserves to be young - or at least not old - at heart.

~ Tom Frieden

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

~ Harold Kushner

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

~ Storm Jameson

At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

~ Moby

You can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk.

~ Edward Snowden

White House leaks of classified information put the lives of U.S. service members, intelligence officers, and civilians at risk. That's why I support a measure passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee to crack down on such leaks.

~ Peter T. King

Successful organizations, including the Military, have learned that the higher the risk, the more necessary it is to engage everyone's commitment and intelligence.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

I was the youngest child and the only son. I was expected to shine in academics. It seemed like too big a risk to take up cricket as a career. I thought I had to live up to my family's expectations. So I chose to be an engineer.

~ Sushant Singh Rajput

Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and yet independence puts thousands of jobs at risk.

~ Philip Hammond

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

~ Andrew Jackson

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

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

~ Jim Rohn

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

~ Maimonides

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

~ Ray Bradbury

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

~ Chuck Yeager