Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Aesop

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Ali, Muhammad

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Erica Jong

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

Friedman, Milton

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Platen

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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

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

Burke, James E.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Havlicek, John

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Katherine Mansfield

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Virgil

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

34.

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

Soul, Julia

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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

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Ovid

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

42.

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

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

James, William