Top 223 Risking Quotes & Sayings

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours.

You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief? I see nothing particularly courageous about risking one's life. So you lose it, you go to your hero's heaven and everything is milk and honey 'til the end of time. Right? You get your reward and suffer no earthly consequences. That's not courage. Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness. Real courage is risking one's clichés.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

There are some things worthy of risking your life for.

Being a warrior doesn’t mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

Men, you are about to embark on a great crusade to stamp out runaway decency in the west. Now you men will only be risking your lives, whilst I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.

I think if you're raising your foot high whether it's an overhead kick or not, you're risking a red card.

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

I firmly believe that you can't get a good movie without risking a bad movie.

The E.U. cannot act as guardian of the post-Cold War status quo without risking a collapse of Europe's current institutional infrastructure.

Risking your life is not an easy thing to do.

In tournaments, you want to steal the blinds as cheaply as possible without risking a high percentage of your chips.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

During the first period of our lives the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. By not risking at first one turns aside and serves trivialities; in the second case, by risking too much, one turns aside to the fantastic and perhaps to presumption.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and risking all the reforms that had been achieved.

As the fighter, you're the one getting in the ring, you're the one risking injuries, you're the one risking your life - not only on the day of the fight, but in training camp. You're getting punched, you're training, you're sparring. You have to make sure that it's worth the risk - the compensation, the terms, the fights that you want.

There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

If you polled the military in Afghanistan as to how many think we should be there or not, the numbers would probably be similar to what the U.S. population believes. That's not because they're watching the news. But, hey, they are out there risking their lives. No one likes to be criticized and it really sucks to be criticized when you're risking your life.

Essentially, not only do we believe in this myth of 'de-risking', but it has become the one overriding goal; de-risking above growth, de-risking above innovation, de-risking above everything else. And we've reached the point where the Fed is using $70 Billion a month to 'de-risk' a largely insolvent banking system. And this can only end badly. The idea that you can do capitalism without risk is ridiculous on its face.

If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable.

You can't even stand without risking to fall.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

When I did the video for "Piledriver Waltz," I was thinking about rodeo clowns, and how they're risking their lives just to keep an entire arena laughing. They're in danger!

Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They're risking their necks.

Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.

Risking one's life can be strangely liberating. That's what the sea counsels me.

There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.

In life, it's between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity

Little fish risking everything for a piece of godhood...and not knowing heaven from hell, even when they find it.

The masses-I love em-they rush for red lights, risking everything to capture a few seconds, only to get home and waste their lives.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

I’ve never believed in risking what my family and friends have and need in order to pursue what they don’t have and don’t need.

Look, I never enjoy risking my tournament life with a marginal hand, but if you want to be a poker champion, that's exactly what needs to be done. Just don't do it too often!

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.

That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.

Do you think it's possible to change something in humanity, not risking? If someone tries to change something and is not risking, it probably means he's not changing anything.

I am risking my life for my work, and half my reason has gone.

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

Living is risking.

Chris (Anderson) is risking his life with every chord, that's how much it means to him. He has such a reverence for beauty, he plays like an angel.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it.

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.

The two great risks are risking too much but also risking too little. That's for each person to decide. For me, not risking anything is worse than death. By far.

I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.