Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Risk

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Jong, Erica

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Brown, Les

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

10.

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

Joaquin Setanti

11.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

14.

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

17.

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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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

20.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Havlicek, John

25.

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

Krone, Julie

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proust, Marcel

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

32.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sculley, John

35.

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

Aesop

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jong, Erica

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

West, Meredith

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

43.

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

Julia Sorel

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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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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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Friedman, Milton