Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Proust, Marcel

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Soul, Julia

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

Ovid

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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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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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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 more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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

24.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Jong, Erica

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Jong, Erica

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

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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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