Motivational Quotes

Risk

All serious daring starts from within.

- Baez, Joan

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Gardner, John W.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Jong, Erica

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

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Stine, Richard

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

West, Meredith

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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

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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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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Kazan, Elia

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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, American

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The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Jong, Erica

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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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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.