Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Burke, James E.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Lillian Carter

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Platen

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

Danton, Georges

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.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

James, William

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

Horace

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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Virgil

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Jong, Erica

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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Rohn, Jim

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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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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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

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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

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

Kroc, Ray

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

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Burke, James E.