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.

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

Collier, Robert

2.

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

Salazar, Alberto

3.

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

Sarton, May

4.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

5.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

6.

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

Soul, Julia

7.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

8.

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

9.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Sculley, John

14.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

15.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

16.

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.

17.

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

Jong, Erica

18.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

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

23.

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

Stine, Richard

24.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

25.

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

Aesop

26.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

27.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

28.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

29.

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

30.

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

James, William

31.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

32.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

33.

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

Ash, Roy

34.

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

35.

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

Rohn, Jim

36.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Ali, Muhammad

40.

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

Repplier, Agnes

41.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

42.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

43.

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

Shaw, P.K.

44.

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

Lillian Carter

45.

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

46.

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

Rohn, Jim

47.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

48.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

49.

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

50.

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