Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Ash, Roy

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

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

10.

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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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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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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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

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

Platen

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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

Danton, Georges

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Gerstner, Lou

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Krone, Julie

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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.

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Aesop

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

44.

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

Moss, Stirling

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Soul, Julia