Motivational Quotes

Risk

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Sculley, John

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Soul, Julia

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

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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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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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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Aesop

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

James, William

19.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Sarton, May

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

Jong, Erica

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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 playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

Allen, Woody

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Danton, Georges

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

Toffler, Alvin

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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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

43.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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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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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