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

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Proust, Marcel

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Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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

Ali, Muhammad

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Stine, Richard

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Friedman, Milton

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Sarton, May

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

Virgil

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Aesop

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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.

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Repplier, Agnes

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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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