Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

2.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

3.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

4.

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

5.

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

Koestler, Arthur

6.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

7.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

8.

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

Krone, Julie

9.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

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

Lippmann, Walter

11.

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

12.

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

Danton, Georges

13.

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

Horace

14.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

15.

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

Soul, Julia

16.

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

17.

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

Ali, Muhammad

18.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

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.

20.

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

Patton, George S.

21.

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

Salazar, Alberto

22.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

23.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

24.

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

25.

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

26.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

27.

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

28.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

29.

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

30.

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

Nolte, Nick

31.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

32.

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

Havlicek, John

33.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

34.

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

Gerstner, Lou

35.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

Kazan, Elia

39.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

40.

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

Jong, Erica

41.

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.

42.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

43.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

44.

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

45.

It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

46.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

47.

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

48.

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

Moss, Stirling

49.

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

Pilpay