risk

1.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

- Kroc, Ray

2.

Never tell me the odds.

- Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

3.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

- Julia Sorel

4.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

- Syrus, Publilius

5.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

- Willis, Nathaniel P.

6.

We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

7.

Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

- Thackeray, William M.

8.

The reality is that zero defects in products plus zero pollution plus zero risk on the job is equivalent to maximum growth of government plus zero economic growth plus runaway inflation.

- Ray, Dixie Lee

9.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

- Metastasio, Pietro

10.

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

- King, Billie Jean

11.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

12.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

- Carnegie, Dale

13.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

- Alda, Alan

14.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

- Ellis, Havelock

15.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

- Horace

16.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

- Algren, Nelson

17.

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

- Persian

19.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

- Bradbury, Ray

20.

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

- Chuang-tzu