Risk Quotes · Page 111

“Sometimes you have to just go for what you want. Take the risk in order to get the reward.”

— Melody Carlson

I'm not sure the risks I take are any different from what other writers take, since we all serve at the pleasure…

— Stewart O'Nan

The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody…

— David Foster Wallace

“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Not having a contingency plan or never performing risk analysis and mitigation activities is like not having an insurance plan for yourself.”

— Pooja Agnihotri

“Stepping out there is easy if you don't have anything to risk." "Life's a risk. It's what you make of it that…

— Trice Hickman

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

— Stephen King

“One of the main reasons people fail to reach their full potential is because they are unwilling to risk anything.”

— Zig Ziglar

people who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel…

— Susan Jeffers

You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an…

— Paulo Coelho

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent…

— Kevin Rudd

With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now…

— Dick Morris

I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and…

— Mary Oliver

Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage…

— Mariana Mazzucato

So worried was I that people would see through the painting into my soul - and guess at secret Alison stuff -…

— Allison Mackie

I'm just saying, there may be ways unlocking this deadlock here in the way the media covers people, Republicans and Democrats, and…

— Rush Limbaugh

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

— Asne Seierstad

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs…

— Ronald Reagan

Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is…

— Christiane Northrup

With all the precautions and risks that accompany sex today, it sounds about as much fun as walking through a minefield.

— Erma Bombeck

Somebody must take a chance. There are monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees…

— Lincoln Steffens

When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse.

— Teresa Amabile

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing and is nothing.

— Anonymous

The risk of just one terrorist with just one nuclear weapon is a risk we simply cannot afford to take.

— John O. Brennan

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full…

— Stephen Batchelor

The greatest risk in giving our government any power to control our speech is that it would then have a vehicle to…

— Kat Timpf

I would say Colin Jost is Kanye West because he takes like the creative risk a lot of times, whereas I'm like,…

— Michael Che

“When risk is a challenge, fear becomes a compass—literally pointing people in the direction they need to go next”

— Steven Kotler

If you dont ever take a risk, you will never know what it feels like living on the edge.

— Anonymous

If you are not willing to risk, you cannot become your best, and if you cannot become your best, you cannot be…

— Les Brown

My eyes see the danger; my heart knows the outcome, but my mind decided to take the risk. Weakness; takes over.

— London Mond

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don't sample the goodies unless you're willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

— Ann Landers

For risk management reasons, we need to make sure we hit our inflation objective at the same time we're at full employment.

— Charles L. Evans

Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.

— Ernst Zundel

Kobe Bryant is my favorite basketball player. He takes risks. He goes for the shot. He isn't cautious with whatever he does.

— Haley Joel Osment

“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”

— Lev Grossman

I felt a variation of the fear that a lot of gay people have, that their families will reject them. I thought…

— Candace Gingrich-Jones

If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find…

— Anne Fortier

“I’d do it all again for you. Do it all over again. Go back to the very start. You’re worth every risk.”

— Adriane Leigh

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what…

— Debbie Ford