Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Ali, Muhammad

Best Quotes about Risk

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kroc, Ray

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Platen

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

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

Danton, Georges

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

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

Ovid

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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

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Horace

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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

West, Meredith

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Virgil

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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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.

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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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

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

Aesop

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Salazar, Alberto