Motivational Quotes

Risk

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Kazan, Elia

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

Salazar, Alberto

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Platen

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Jong, Erica

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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Sculley, John

39.

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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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 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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

46.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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