Motivational Quotes

Risk

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Brown, Les

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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

Horace

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Platen

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Sculley, John

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Pilpay

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

Krone, Julie

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

Julia Sorel

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Virgil

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

Ovid

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out