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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

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

Krone, Julie

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

12.

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

Stine, Richard

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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

16.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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.

18.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

19.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Virgil

21.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Proverb, American

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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

25.

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

Ash, Roy

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Joaquin Setanti

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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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

35.

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

36.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Hines, Duncan

40.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Ali, Muhammad

42.

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

Soul, Julia

43.

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

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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

45.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Aesop

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