Motivational Quotes

Risk

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

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

Krone, Julie

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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

Collier, Robert

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Proverb, American

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Horace

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Aesop

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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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

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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

Havlicek, John

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Patton, George S.

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

Hines, Duncan

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

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jong, Erica

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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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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To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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

Lippmann, Walter