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Risk Quotes


"For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or they may have means to deal with it: thus when in danger at sea people may feel confident about what will happen either because they have no experience of bad weather, or because their experience gives them the means of dealing with it."


"And I meant to tell you: that was a one-in-a-thousand shot."She raised her hand. "Don't.""It was awesome," George confirmed. "It really was," Jack said. "His head exploded."


"Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It's that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that we never reach our biggest dreams, because the biggest dreams require the most risk."


"The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk."


"I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."


"The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do."


"If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear."


"I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it."


"Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes."


"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."


"If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone."


"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."


"Any time you put yourself on the line, you risk (and maybe fear) failing, falling, being embarrassed, or looking stupid-none of which are comfortable."



"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"


"You can't fly by staring at the sky. You have to take a risk to grow wings of imagination and fly."


"Her gaze travels back to the lie twisted in a tempest of mud and blood. She witnesses the culmination of her recklessness through a curved lens. Absorbed in life uncoiling, unaware of the world beyond this ridge. His light hair, darkened by rain. His stiff shoulders, full of pain. The vision poisoned with truth. With rust-stained hues."


"If you are trying to look clean, neat and avoid casting your nets in trouble waters, you will catch no fish."
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