Motivational Quotes

Risk

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bradbury, Ray

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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

Julia Sorel

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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

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

Proverb, American

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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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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

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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

West, Meredith

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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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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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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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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?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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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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.