And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.~  Erica Jong

Biggest profits mean gravest risks.~ Chinese Proverb

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it.  Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?  ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.~ Helmuth von Moltke

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.~ William Hazlitt

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.~ Storm Jameson

He that holds the handle of a frying-pan runs the risk of burning himself.~ French Proverb

He who doesn’t risk never gets to drink champagne.~ Russian Proverb

He who risks nothing can gain nothing.~ Italian Proverbs

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.~ Muhammad Ali

If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.~ J Danforth Quayle

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk- seeking profile that you need.~ Laurel Cutler

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.  ~ Ray Bradbury

Nothing is gained without taking risks.~ Spanish Proverb

Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.~ Walter Anderson

Our lives improve only when we take chances — and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.~ Walter Anderson

Progress always involves risk; you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.~ Frederick Wilcox

Risk – If one as 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 Proverb

Take risks:  if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. ~ Famous Quotes

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.~ George S Patton

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.~ Peter Mcwilliams

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.~ Maimonides

There’s as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.~ Trammell Crow

This nation was built by men who took risks – pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. ~ Brooks Atkinson

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.~ Richard Baker

To win you have to risk loss. ~ Jean-Claude Killy

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.~ Pierre Corneille

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.~ Algernon Sidney

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone.  Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. ~ Tim McMahon

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.~ An Wang

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, and you don’t branch out, you don’t try-you don’t take the risk.~  Rosalynn Smith Carter

You’ve got to keep fighting; you’ve got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.~ Elia Kazan