Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Risk

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

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Pilpay

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

Toffler, Alvin

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

10.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

11.

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

12.

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.

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Ovid

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

25.

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

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Allen, Woody

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

Repplier, Agnes

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Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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

32.

?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.

Paulus, Trina

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Platen

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Julia Sorel

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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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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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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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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

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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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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston