Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Risk

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Nolte, Nick

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

10.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

12.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

13.

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

Hines, Duncan

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Repplier, Agnes

16.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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

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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

19.

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

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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

21.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

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

Kazan, Elia

29.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

30.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

31.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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.

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Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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

Ovid

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The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

42.

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

Aesop

43.

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

Salazar, Alberto

44.

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

Pilpay

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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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

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

49.

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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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