Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Ali, Muhammad

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

3.

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

West, Meredith

4.

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

Stine, Richard

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

Bradbury, Ray

9.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

10.

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

Nolte, Nick

11.

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

Getty, J. Paul

12.

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

Danton, Georges

13.

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

14.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

15.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

16.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

17.

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

Shaw, P.K.

18.

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

19.

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

Patton, George S.

20.

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

Gerstner, Lou

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

24.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

25.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

26.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

27.

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

28.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

29.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

31.

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

Repplier, Agnes

32.

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

Kazan, Elia

33.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

35.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

36.

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

37.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

38.

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

Pilpay

39.

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

Aesop

40.

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

41.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

42.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

43.

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

Platen

44.

?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.