Risk Quotes
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.Oscar Wilde
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.Carolyn Heilbrun
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.Katherine Mansfield
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.Gloria Steinem
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.Baltasar Gracian
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.E. e. cummings
In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.Sheldon Kopp
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.Tobias G. Smollett
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.George S. Patton
Self - Confidence is something caught and not taught. And, risk - Running and chance - Taking are the only ways to catch it.Arnold Schwarzenegger
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.Joaquin Setanti
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.George Shinn
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.W. Somerset Maugham
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.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Courage is more than standing for a firm conviction. It includes the risk of questioning that conviction.Julian Weber Gordon
What you risk reveals what you value.Jeanette Winterson
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
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.George Eliot
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk - - To be true to ourselves.Jim We
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are. A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.Oswald Mosley
Life is a risk.Diane Von Furstenberg
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.Dr. Joyce Brothers
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.Katherine Mansfield
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - And surely will at times - - Fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk.Joyce
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.Rabbi Harold Kushne
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.Voltaire, Zadig
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.Kingman Brewster, Jr.
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
God sells knowledge for labour - - Honour for risk.Arabic Prove
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself.Alan Alda
Sometimes the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk.Unknown
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
