Motivational Quotes

Risk

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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

Bradbury, Ray

4.

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

Danton, Georges

5.

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

6.

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

Horace

7.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

8.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

9.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

11.

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

Soul, Julia

12.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

13.

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

14.

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.

15.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

16.

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

Rohn, Jim

17.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

18.

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

Patton, George S.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

22.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

23.

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

24.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

25.

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

Toffler, Alvin

26.

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

West, Meredith

27.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

31.

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

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

33.

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

Getty, J. Paul

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Salazar, Alberto

37.

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

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

42.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

43.

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

44.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

45.

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

Pilpay

46.

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

47.

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

Gardner, John W.

48.

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

49.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

50.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius