Motivational Quotes

Risk

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Ash, Roy

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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.

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

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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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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

West, Meredith

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, American

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

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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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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

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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Aesop

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Pilpay

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Virgil

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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

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

Sarton, May

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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