Motivational Quotes

Risk

Life is a risk.

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Ash, Roy

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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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

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To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pilpay

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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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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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

Repplier, Agnes

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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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

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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

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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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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

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Toffler, Alvin