Risk Quotes - Page 7

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

For individuals and organizations alike, a reputation is far easier to destroy than it is to build.

Risk is uncertainty injected into our most vulnerable places. And because that’s the case, we may choose not to risk.

Blind risk is stupid, but calculated risks are worth taking.

Risk all to find the right path.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

To become a better you, hurry up and take risks.

Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

To become a better you, dare to take calculated risks and overcome your limitations. Your scars can make you a star, but you have to decide.

Anything in your life that’s acting as a security blanket is only smothering the person you were born to be.

Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transformation from who I am into who I was meant to become. Only when God's transforming power touches me can I begin to live the simpler, freer, fresher, more creative, more patient, more passionate, more sacrificial, riskier, rawer, more real, more love-driven life God intended for me all along. That transformation is what awaits all who dare to enter the story of God. As Paul wrote, 'Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think' (Romans 12:2)

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.

When the future is fogged and ahead lays opportunity but risk, it is better to tread a careful path through the uncertainty than to wait for the mist to clear, if it ever does.

Just remember, you never know what's possible until you risk finding out.

Thinking it was easy to take a chance on things if you had nothing to lose -- politics, ideas, almost anything in fact; from the bottom of the ladder you could safely risk a fall, but the higher that you climbed the more cautious you must be.

For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to take a risk, to free-fall, to fail, and that you've got to let go of the past.

Life Insurance is a mitigation to the risk of your lifeFinancial Freedom is a mitigation to the risk of living your life !!Choice has always been yours.

Those who don’t want to take risks in life end up been the losers.

We were not born whole; we were born new, and each life experience coated us with another layer. These layers protected us like armor, but they also covered us to the point where we no longer could feel. That was the balance: to open up to the experiences, to strategically place the layers, but to leave the heart open. The heart had to be sent into the front lines every day, naked, unarmed, willing to take fire. That was the only way to live. With risk. On the cusp of dying.

Why try to fit yourself into that same, tired mold when you could become something better?""Because it's safe," he said. "Don't we all want to feel safe?"Linley shrugged. "Not always. Sometimes I like to push the boundaries. I like seeing what I'm truly capable of."The both ducked down to miss a long, overhanging branch that skimmed across the jungle path. "But you could get hurt," Patrick said. "You could get yourself killed.""Isn't death the one risk of really living?

If you are not ready to take a risk ten you are not ready for success

and I said, 'That is why you don't climb mountains, Gwen.' But now I wonder. You aren't afraid of heights.""No", she said. "Not particularly.""Only missteps."She paused midstroke. Did he mean to imply this had been a misstep? "I was afraid," she said carefully. "For a very long time. But no longer." "So was I," he said, and lifted her chin and kissed her.

If one Godfather offers you an opportunity and another Godfather offers you an advantage, go with the former.

It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.

I think that most artists scorned would prefer to be known as the one with the genius brain risking no career over the one with the good brain and great career.

We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.

J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.

I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

People play small for lots of reasons, but at the core of them all is fear. Playing small means playing safe—avoiding risk, failure, criticism, and the list goes on. But just imagine how incredibly different the world would be if everyone committed to playing big—taking on audacious goals, trying to make a meaningful difference, being all they could possibly be.

If every day at work feels like a Friday, then you are doing what you were meant to do.

The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.

To love anyone is to risk.

Sometimes you need to take the chance and risk it all. Everything might come to an abrupt end or lead to a prosperous beginning either way you would have got your answers, answers you happened to seek which will only be given to you when you ask for them, when you speak.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

The greatest risk in life is not to take a risk.

If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.

Genuinely intelligence-led operations have to be embedded into both processes and more importantly mindsets to bridge the gaps in Risk Management.

Have nuts and be nuts.

Opportunity and risk come in pairs

If you like tiger cubs,you got to get into the den!

My mind gets stronger everyday,my heart gets weaker with time.

Risk all. Let life be a play, a risk, a gamble. And when you can risk all you will attain to a sharpness in your being: your soul will be born. The Golden Flower can bloom in you only if you are courageous, daring. It blooms only in courage.

Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?

China is a political beast, with the Party at its heart, and the importance of political and regulatory due diligence cannot be overstated.

If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.

Despite her fears she found,The secret to an outstanding life,Is risking the fall,For the possibility of flight.

The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.

We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us a sense that we're alive and breathing and doing Something! Throwing yourself into it begins with being grateful that you even have something to throw yourself into.

Without risk, life is far too predictable

He reached out and intertwined our hands. Gently urging me forward he whispered, “Have I lost you love?

You plan every step of your life, but sometimes you have to let life happen. Change is always unsettling, sometimes scary, but you have to let go. Take a risk. Risk can be fun.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain.(Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Sometimes we focus too much on the lyrics that we forget to dance to the music. And sometimes we dance to the music and don't listen to the lyrics. Let the rhythm guide you. Let the lyrics inspire you.

Don't be afraid to start small, entrepreneurship takes courage to win, and look for quick wins while setting a short and long term vision

Any way, is better than no way at all.

In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness.

The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.