Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Friedman, Milton

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Allen, Woody

Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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

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

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Pilpay

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

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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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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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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

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

Stine, Richard

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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

James, William

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

Krone, Julie

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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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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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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