It’s not that the risk isn’t worth the reward, it’s that the reward isn’t worth as much as another reward, which also has a lesser risk.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

I have not always chosen the safest path. I’ve made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes jump too soon and fail to appreciate the consequences. But I’ve learned something important along the way: I’ve...

We can’t be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.

And experience shows if you get the animal side right, one substantially reduces the risk of a human pandemic,

I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was...

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

In these countries, the risk of a pandemic virus emerging is much higher than it is in Western Europe.

Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself.

Behind every no entry sign there’s a door.

Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

True love is taking the risk that it won’t be a happily-ever-after. True love is joining hands with the man who loves you for who you are, and saying, “I’m not afraid to believe in...

Just taking risks for risk’s sake, that doesn’t do it for me. I’m willing to take risks that I think are worth it, and I’ve worked so hard to make sure that I survive.

There’s a risk to someone assuming this hero-type status because then there’s the temptation you’re going to lean toward believing him no matter what says — and that’s potentially dangerous.

Once I get something going well, I’ll risk fucking it up just for the action.

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...

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions.

Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and...

When you put your whole heart in something you risk just that. Your whole heart. It’s a high roller’s type of gamble. I can tell by your letters that you love with your whole heart.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that’s what Jesus, the Real Man, did.

Since that day there is nothing anyone could ever say to convince me that one person cannot change a nation. One person can do unbelievable things. All it takes is that one person who’s willing...

Why not go out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.

In ancient Rome, when a victorious general paraded through the streets, legend has it that he was sometimes trailed by a servant whose job it was to repeat to him, ” Memento Mori”: Remember you...

The greatest risk is not taking any.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to...

The current-account deficit is a risk for the dollar. It’s difficult to justify buying the dollar until we get some more favorable economic data.

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

I lived a life, a life of risks, risks I never took.

As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can’t risk it all.

They will have difficulties to overcome,’ I admitted. ‘Including the differences in their religions. However, marriage is always a chancy business, Katherine. I have known individuals who appeared perfectly suited, by family background, religion, and...

America is a leap of the imagination. From its beginning, people had only a persistent idea of what a good country should be. The idea involved freedom, equality, justice, and the pursuit of happiness; nowadays...

Risk: no full life occurs without it.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as...

There is a risk that only 95 percent would be removed, … You would bring a sense of complacency to the community and increase rather than reduce the chance of injury.

Ultimately it’s going to be better for the patient. It’s going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Quitting is good. It’s always good to quit, no matter how long you’ve smoked, … You’ll reduce your risk of lung cancer, reduce the degree to which you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, reduce your...

What is courage without risk… It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

When you find your path, you must ignore fear. You need to have the courage to risk mistakes. But once you are on that road… run, run, run, and don’t stop til you’ve reached its...

To take risk and fail is not a failure. Real failure is to fear taking any risk

When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take a step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be...

…human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don’t see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the media, by films, by our own personalities and experiences. So, despite the unlikely...

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

Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the exit from the U.K. Defence jobs are vital to the Scottish economy and...

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. – Mr. Benedict

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

I think ABC decided to take one risk instead of two.

Some have won a wild delight,By daring wilder sorrow;Could I gain thy love to-night,I’d hazard death to-morrow.