Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Risk

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

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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

Mansfield, Katherine

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

Gerstner, Lou

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

12.

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

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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.

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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

16.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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

Julia Sorel

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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Lillian Carter

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Nolte, Nick

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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Aesop

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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Erica Jong

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If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

49.

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley