Sayings about Risks
Biggest profits mean gravest risks. ~ Chinese Proverb
Better to risk a little than to lose the whole. ~ American Proverbs
He who risks nothing can gain nothing. ~ Italian Proverbs
Risk – If one as to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn’t know how wide it is, he’ll jump and six times out of ten he’ll make it ~ Persian Proverb
He who doesn’t risk never gets to drink champagne. ~ Russian Proverbs
He that holds the handle of a frying-pan runs the risk of burning himself. ~ French Proverb
A cat loves fish, but won’t risk its claws. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Danger can never by overcome without taking risks. ~ Latin Proverbs
Nothing is gained without taking risks. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Quotations about Risks
The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks. ~ Peter McWilliams
Our lives improve only when we take chances — and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. ~ Walter Anderson
Educated risks are the key to success. ~ William Olsten
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide. ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
To be alive at all involves some risk. ~ Harold MacMillan
When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given. ~ Barbara Sher
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. ~ Joaquin Setanti
Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. ~ Dr. Robert Anthony
To win you have to risk loss. ~ Jean-Claude Killy
Taking risks gives me energy. ~ Jay Chiat
Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision. ~ Harry A. Hopf
Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash. ~ George S. Patton
Most successful people are people who take risks — calculated risks — but nevertheless, risks. ~ Author Unknown
Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else? ~ Alex Noble
There are always risks in freedom. The only risk in bondage is breaking free. ~ Gita Bellin
A man sits as many risks as he runs. ~ Henry David Thoreau
What is necessary is never a risk. ~ Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz
If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks. ~ Author Unknown
I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk– seeking profile that you need. ~ Laurel Cutler
During the first period of a man’s life, the danger is not to take the risk. ~ Soren Kierkegaard
People who take risks are the people you’ll lose against. ~ John Sculley
If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure. ~ J Danforth Quayle
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. ~ Jim Rohn
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so. ~ Sonia Johnson
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. ~ George Shinn
The people I want to hear about are the people who take risks. ~ Robert Lee Frost
We don’t grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures. ~ James E. Burke
The risks of luxury must be balanced against the costs of necessity and proof of utility. ~ Arthur C. Frantzreb
You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious. ~ Denis Diderot
Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. ~ Frederick B. Wilcox
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing. ~ Warren Buffett
In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge. ~ Dennis Dugan
The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith. ~ George E. Woodberry
All of life is a risk; in fact we’re not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words. ~ Jim Rohn
It is only by risking… that we live at all. ~ William James
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. ~ Cadet Maxim
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
The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more. ~ Erica Jong
Take a risk — jump out of your comfort zone! ~ Author Unknown
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Every minute of life I take a risk; it’s part of the enjoyment. ~ Otto Preminger
Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations. ~ George E. Woodberry
To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. ~ Jacqueline Cochran
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it. ~ Charles Baudelaire
There’s no reward in life without risk. ~ Barry J. Farber
To win without risk is to triumph without glory. ~ Pierre Corneille
Nothing noble is done without risk. ~ Andre Gide
Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. ~ Pietro Metastasio
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself. ~ Kenneth S. Davis
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. ~ Ray Bradbury
There’s as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something. ~ Trammell Crow
If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul. ~ Drew Barrymore
First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. ~ Helmuth von Moltke
We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. ~ Maxwell Maltz
I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
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
Risk! Risk anything… Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. ~ Katherine Mansfield
To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born. ~ A.P. Gouthey
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. ~ Denis Waitley
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. ~ William Hazlitt
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. ~ Muhammad Ali
You have to risk failure to succeed. ~ An Wang
Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider. ~ Author Unknown
We don’t grow unless we take risks. ~ James E. Burke
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation. ~ Nigel Dennis
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. ~ Maimonides
Life has no romance without risk. ~ Sarah Doherty
If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul. ~ Drew Barrymore
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. ~ Author Unknown
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. ~ Geena Davis
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. ~ John W. Gardner
To save all, we must risk all. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. ~ Shirley Hufstedler
You’ve got to keep fighting; you’ve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. ~ Elia Kazan
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory. ~ Pierre Corneille
Life without risk is not worth living. ~ Charles A. Lindbergh
Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk. ~ Jack Gibb
If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure. ~ Dan Quayle
If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business. ~ Ray Kroc
Everything is sweetened by risk. ~ Alexander Smith
