Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
~By Alex Noble ~
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.
~By Ruth Westheimer ~
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
~By Samuel Wilson ~
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
~By Denis Waitley ~
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.
~By Mitt Romney ~
I'm of the mind that life is a risk, every time you leave your house it's a risk, and I see no reason to go through life with my hands tied behind my back for any reason. I'd be foolish to let something stop me from doing what I love to do.
~By Thomas Jane ~
You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years.
~By Bebe Neuwirth ~
It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.
~By Robert Patrick ~
Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.
~By Vinton Cerf ~
I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
~By Guy Verhofstadt ~
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
~By Bob Iger ~
All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.
~By Jeff Sessions ~
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.
~By Cesar Chavez ~
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
~By Silvia Cartwright ~
I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
~By Barbara Mikulski ~
Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~By Erica Jong ~
Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.
~By Ruben Hinojosa ~
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
~By Rosalynn Carter ~
Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.
~By Charles Krauthammer ~
Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.
~By Bob Graham ~
To win you have to risk loss.
~By Jean-Claude Killy ~
In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.
~By Mary Stuart Masterson ~
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.
~By Alan Greenspan ~
Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home.
~By Gijs de Vries ~
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
~By Ella Maillart ~
There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.
~By Timothy Geithner ~
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
~By Robert Anthony ~
Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
~By Ann Veneman ~
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
~By Harold Kushner ~
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.
~By Warren Rudman ~
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
~By Miguel Angel Ruiz ~
Dare to risk public criticism.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
~By Kurt Student ~
Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions.
~By Arvid Carlsson ~
Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
~By Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ~
This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.
~By John Sununu ~
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
~By Carolyn Heilbrun ~
Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.
~By Paul Sarbanes ~
Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
~By Robert. L. Ehrlich ~
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth.
~By Alvin Adams ~
The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
Will it, and set to work briskly.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
~By James Hillman ~
If you have something at risk, you think differently.
~By Henry Kravis ~
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
~By Dave Barry ~
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
~By Mitt Romney ~
For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.
~By John Hickenlooper ~
I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
~By David R. Brower ~
I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
~By Victor Kiam ~
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it.
~By Jacques Lacan ~
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
~By Josh Billings ~
It's risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.
~By Marcel Achard ~
Every time in this century we've lowered the tax rates across the board, on employment, on saving, investment and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not down.
~By Jack Kemp ~
Col. Shaffer is prohibited by his lawyer from talking. He's at great risk. They want to take away his pay and his health care benefits so they can hold it over his head and not allow him to talk while he's under suspension. This is not America.
~By Curt Weldon ~
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
~By Lorraine Hansberry ~
Taking risks gives me energy.
~By Jay Chiat ~
I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.
~By Jeremy Brett ~
In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant.
~By John Cameron ~
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
I have to say that in this particular cow that we're dealing with, those parts of the cow were removed, and so we don't think there's any risk or very negligible risk to human health with this particular incident.
~By Ann Veneman ~
With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
~By Satish Kumar ~
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.
~By Jared Diamond ~
I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.
~By Juliette Binoche ~
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
~By Rosalynn Carter ~
I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.
~By Michael Pitt ~
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
~By Gary Ryan Blair ~
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
~By Ed Pastor ~
Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.
~By Steve Lacy ~
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.
~By Gene Robinson ~
At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
~By John McLaughlin ~
If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.
~By Charles Krauthammer ~
Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many years, and this cannot be done without risking the loss of independence and originality. This is a serious and fundamental obstacle but it may be overcome in two ways.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
You got to risk something to be able to give something, you know?
~By Joshua Homme ~
I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
~By Kristen Bell ~
I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.
~By Janet Reno ~
Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.
~By George W. Bush ~
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
~By James E. Burke ~
If my ego was out of whack and I believed I could carry anything off, that would be a stupid risk. But so far there's been no reason not to try anything.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
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