Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Danton, Georges

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

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

Rohn, Jim

5.

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.

6.

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

Gardner, John W.

7.

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.

8.

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

9.

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

Ovid

10.

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

Kroc, Ray

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

16.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

17.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

18.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

20.

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

21.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

22.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

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

Proust, Marcel

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

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

Aesop

26.

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

27.

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

Havlicek, John

28.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

29.

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

Danton, Georges

30.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

31.

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

Sculley, John

32.

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

Erica Jong

33.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

34.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

35.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

36.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

37.

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

James, William

38.

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

39.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

40.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

41.

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

42.

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

Sarton, May

43.

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

Pilpay

44.

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

45.

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

Ash, Roy

46.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Jong, Erica

50.

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