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

1.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

2.

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

Danton, Georges

3.

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

4.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

5.

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.

6.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

7.

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

Jong, Erica

8.

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

Burke, James E.

9.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

10.

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

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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

Pilpay

13.

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

14.

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

15.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Lippmann, Walter

19.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

20.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

21.

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

22.

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

Woodberry, George E.

23.

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

Soul, Julia

24.

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

Collier, Robert

25.

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

26.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

27.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

28.

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.

29.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

30.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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

Nolte, Nick

32.

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

Proverb, American

33.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

34.

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

Kroc, Ray

35.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

36.

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

Koestler, Arthur

37.

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

Aesop

38.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

39.

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

Gardner, John W.

40.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

41.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

42.

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

Rohn, Jim

43.

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

West, Meredith

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Stine, Richard

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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