Motivational Quotes

Risk

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Shaw, P.K.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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.

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb, American

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Sculley, John

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

Frost, Robert

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Patton, George S.

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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.

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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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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 never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke