Top 1200 Great Risk Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.

Dark lipstick on me is both a risk and a disaster.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

A person who refuses to risk change fails to grow.

None of us live in a zero-risk world.

I try not to do tricks because I don't want to be caught with it. It's a risk.

Love always requires courage and involves risk.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.

Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew - Hellooo? Great name, better fashion image than the Gap.

'Returnless risk' is not how you prepare for a decent retirement.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Well, there's always risk in long-term investment.

It's the disease of thinking that a having a great idea is really 90% of the work. And if you just tell people, 'here's this great idea,' then of course they can go off and make it happen. The problem with that is that there's a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a having a great idea and having a great product.

My favorite movie out of the old movies was 'Escape to Witch Mountain.' We were working with horses and bears, and when you have a great friend like Ike and a great director... it was a great experience.

It is a risk to love. What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

I'm a firm believer in teaching children to manage risk.

As a boxer, you have to put risk in to get to another level.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

Life entails risk, and you have to draw some lines.

I'm not a big guy for research. You've got to take a risk.

People who are over-educated become risk-averse.

The best protection against risk is knowing what you are doing.

Putting us in risk is just plain stupid.

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

No fighter wants to risk getting ring rust.

Everyone can tell you the risk. An entrepreneur can see the reward.

The hardest thing to judge is what level of risk is safe.

As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can't risk it all.

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.

By trying to do too much, you risk not doing enough.

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

Regardless of what people think of the WWE, we're great at storylines; we're great at drawing money. We're great at causing controversy, and when the other sports do it, they usually do better. It keeps it interesting and makes it fun for the fans.

The greatest opportunities in life come with fear and risk.

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

Henry is a great man, I really like him. He is a great professional and I think he will be a great captain for them. He's been the outstanding player in the Premiership for the last three or four years

Like women, life is unpredictable and a huge risk.

I would never risk speaking ill of Messi.

Practice means cutting down chance and risk.

In order to prosecute war, you have to take some risk.

Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

All my career, I've played in great teams - Marseille was a great team, Arsenal was a great thing, but we never won a trophy. With Manchester City, first year, it happened, and it was just a big relief.

As an industry, we have a responsibility to manage risk in a way that is prudent.

I've done a lot of drama, and as a lifestyle, going to work and laughing every day is just great. It's great for your mental health, and it's great for setting up a nice year.

When we risk no contradiction, It prompts the tongue to deal in fiction.

With everything I do, there always seems to be a massive risk involved.

Love puts all logic to sleep. Otherwise, we wouldn't risk it.

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

My basic rule is if the relative risk isn't at least 3 or 4, forget it.

Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

They say things happen in three. I won with the great Kobe, the great D-Wade and now it's my job to win one with the great LeBron James. We have everything in place. We just got to get it done.