Motivational Quotes

Risk

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Havlicek, John

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

West, Meredith

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Julia Sorel

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

Sarton, May

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Soul, Julia

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir