Motivational Quotes

Risk

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Kazan, Elia

2.

If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

3.

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

Platen

4.

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

Danton, Georges

5.

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

6.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

8.

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

Gardner, John W.

9.

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

Krone, Julie

10.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

11.

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

12.

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

Allen, Woody

13.

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

14.

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

Joaquin Setanti

15.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

16.

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

Ali, Muhammad

17.

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.

18.

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

19.

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

20.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

22.

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

Getty, J. Paul

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

27.

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

28.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

29.

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

30.

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

31.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

32.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

33.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

34.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

35.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

36.

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

Virgil

37.

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

38.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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

40.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

41.

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

Havlicek, John

42.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

Erica Jong

44.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

45.

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

Proust, Marcel

46.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

47.

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

48.

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

Repplier, Agnes

49.

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

Ash, Roy

50.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May