Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

2.

Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

3.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

4.

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

5.

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

Sculley, John

6.

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

Platen

7.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

8.

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

Lippmann, Walter

9.

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

Joaquin Setanti

10.

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

Moss, Stirling

11.

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

Gardner, John W.

12.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

13.

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

Proust, Marcel

14.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

15.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

16.

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

Gerstner, Lou

17.

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

18.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

19.

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

20.

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

Patton, George S.

21.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

22.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

23.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

24.

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

Shaw, P.K.

25.

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

Erica Jong

26.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

27.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

29.

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

James, William

30.

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

31.

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

Stine, Richard

32.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

33.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

34.

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

Eliot, T. S.

35.

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

36.

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

Julia Sorel

37.

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

Danton, Georges

38.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Kazan, Elia

42.

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

Virgil

43.

Educated risks are the key to success.