Motivational Quotes

Risk

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

- Ash, Roy

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

11.

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

Ovid

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Erica Jong

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Ash, Mary Kay

21.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Patton, George S.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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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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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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

James, William

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

Sarton, May

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

West, Meredith