Risk
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?
The business side of real estate investing is fraught with risk. Unlike purchasing mutual funds or savings bonds, with real estate, you can lose money; this is one of the reasons that seasoned real estate investors caution neophytes never to get too emotional about a property and always be willing to walk away.
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it's starting a new business, whether it's leaving home, whether it's getting married, or whether it's flying in space.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place — police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Our lives improve only when we take chances — and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.
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