Quotes
Quotes about Risk
These most brisk and giddy-paced times.
When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.
Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.
Alike all ages. Dames of ancient days
Have led their children through the mirthful maze,
And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore,
Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
How soft the music of those village bells
Falling at intervals upon the ear
In cadence sweet!
O Life! how pleasant is thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like schoolboys at th' expected warning,
To joy and play.
Ambition has no risk.
Good critics, who have stamped out poets' hope,
Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state,
Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause.
There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
But boundless risk must pay for boundless gain.
There were books and pictures on display, brisk commentaries on what these men had said, and barks about their pertinence to today.
All art is risk and I think we have to accept that risk, hence accept living dangerously
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much.
And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
You can't put equipment on your gravestone. * Ian Stewart's father about the risks he was taking.
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
The Ass and the Lapdog A man had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The Ass was left in a stable and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any other Ass would. The Lapdog knew many tricks and was a great favorite with his master, who often fondled him and seldom went out to dine without bringing him home some tidbit to eat. The Ass, on the contrary, had much work to do in grinding the corn-mill and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard fate and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lapdog, till at last one day he broke his cords and halter, and galloped into his master's house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen the Lapdog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his back. The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs. The Ass, as he returned to his stall beaten nearly to death, thus lamented: I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not have been contented to labor with my companions, and not wish to be idle all the day like that useless little Lapdog!
Self-confidence is the result of a successfully survived risk.
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.
Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
