Best 2699 quotes in «risk quotes» category

Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers.

While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. Prudent risk management does not equate uncertainty with inaction.

Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along.

Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed freedom, was a sure sign of slavishness. Courage therefore became the political virtue par excellence.

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.

Who gets the risks? The risks are given to the consumer, the unsuspecting consumer and the poor work force. And who gets the benefits? The benefits are only for the corporations, for the money makers.

Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?

Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.

Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.

Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?

Why would I want to help them (the T -Wolves) win a title? They're not doing anything for me. I'm at risk. I have a lot of risk here. I got my family to feed.

Willingness to take risks is the path to success.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

With government deregulation and the triumph of financial liberalization, the dangers of systemic risks, the possibility of a financial tsunami, sharply increased.

With digital, you can shoot longer, take more risks.

With iPad publishing, you can try new things, experiment, and even launch new magazines without the massive risk normally associated with print publishing. The future is digital, so there will be a digital version of everything we do going forward. There has to be. The cheese has been moved.

With My Dog-Eyes by Hilda Hilst got more exposure and reached far more readers than I ever expected. Even my editor at Melville House, who championed the project form the outset, told me she was surprised by the response. After this, editors began asking my opinion about which Latin American writers ought to be translated. I realized I had some cultural capital to spend, and I wanted to use it to introduce another author who might be considered a risk by conventional publishers. Michael Noll was at the top of my list.

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.

Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Women are very good at judging the risk and don't want to waste time with losing. So not that they're not as competitive, and certainly once they're in the race they're every bit as competitive, but they make that choice to compete in a more calculated way sensitive to the odds.

With the risk of being accused of quoting the wrong person I can say that [Adolf] Hitler wrote that "the more the press attacks a person the closer he is to us".

With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an insurer’s right of refusal: to exclude any individual risk as uninsurable, and discriminate freely, according to actuarial methods, between different group risks) a monstrous machinery of wealth and income redistribution at the expense of responsible individuals and low-risk groups in favor of irresponsible actors and high-risk groups has been put in motion.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

Worship of Jesus is rather harmless and risk-free; actually following Jesus changes everything.

Words may deeply wound us, but we must run that risk to be free.

Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

Wrecks are going to happen in this business, that's just a risk of the sport. If you can't keep from worrying about it, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Would you risk your life for love?

Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

You can insure yourself up to your eyeballs, but if you don't take risks, what's the point? You have to enjoy life.

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure...You cannot achieve success if you FEAR failure.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.

You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.

You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.

You cannot improve your future if you are not willing to try something new and risk making mistakes and learning from them

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.