Motivational Quotes

Risk

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Risk

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.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Jong, Erica

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Virgil

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

10.

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

Brown, Les

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Platen

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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

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

Proverb, American

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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Sculley, John

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

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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

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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

Soul, Julia

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

Nolte, Nick

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?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

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Patton, George S.

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

Aesop