Motivational Quotes

Risk

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

2.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

3.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

4.

If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

5.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

6.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

7.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

8.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

9.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

10.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

12.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

13.

With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

14.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

15.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Jong, Erica

16.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

17.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

18.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

19.

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

Julia Sorel

20.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

21.

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

22.

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

23.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

24.

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

25.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

26.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

27.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

28.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

29.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

30.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

31.

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

32.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

33.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

34.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

35.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

36.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

37.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

38.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

39.

To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

40.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

41.

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.

Kennedy, John F.

42.

It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

43.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

44.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

45.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

46.

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

47.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

48.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

49.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

50.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan