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

Storm Jameson
9,461

When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

Oscar Wilde
8,509

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy
7,258

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong
5,646

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton
1,299

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

Pierre Corneille
1,134

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke
312

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Benjamin Cardozo
293

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire
261

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Warren E. Burger
256

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin
249

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti
242

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson
226

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

Julia Sorel
204

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield
202

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter
146

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg
142