Motivational Quotes

Risk

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

3.

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

Collier, Robert

4.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

5.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

6.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

7.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

8.

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

Joaquin Setanti

9.

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

Eliot, T. S.

10.

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

11.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

12.

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

Proverb, American

13.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

14.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

15.

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

16.

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

17.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

18.

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

19.

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

Stine, Richard

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Horace

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

Virgil

27.

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

West, Meredith

28.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

29.

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

Friedman, Milton

30.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

31.

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

Toffler, Alvin

32.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

33.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

34.

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

35.

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

36.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

37.

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

38.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

41.

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

Jong, Erica

42.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

43.

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

44.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

45.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

46.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

47.

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

48.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

49.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

50.

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