Risk
Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
- Cooley, Mason
In love, self-love is always at risk.
- Cooley, Mason
Wit puts politicians at risk.
- Cooley, Mason
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
- Cooley, Mason
Life is the risk we cannot refuse.
- Cooley, Mason
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
- Corneille, Pierre
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
- Crispus, Gaius Sallustius
We saw the risk we took in doing good,<
- Frost, Robert
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
- Havel, Václav
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
- Heilbrun, Carolyn
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
- Hemingway, Ernest
The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.
- Hubbard, Elbert
Better risk loss of truth than chance of error.
- James, William
Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
- Mansfield, Katherine
I choose to risk my significance to live so that which came to me as see goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom goes on as fruit.
- Markova, Dawna
But boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.
- Morris, William
I think there’s a difference between a gamble and a calculated risk.
- North, Edmund
Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
- Tillich, Paul
You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take!
- Unknown
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. (on J.D. Salinger)
- Updike, John
To save all we must risk all.
- Von Schiller, Friedrich
Today the man who is the real risk-taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work.
- Ward, John William
