Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Risk

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.

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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

10.

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

James, William

11.

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

Julia Sorel

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It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

13.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

14.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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?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

18.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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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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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

29.

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

Sarton, May

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Patton, George S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Krone, Julie

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

40.

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

41.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.