Motivational Quotes

Risk

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.

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

3.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

4.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

5.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

6.

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

Joaquin Setanti

7.

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

Friedman, Milton

8.

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

Collier, Robert

9.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

10.

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

11.

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

Danton, Georges

12.

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

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

Nolte, Nick

14.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

15.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

16.

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

17.

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

Patton, George S.

18.

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

Lippmann, Walter

19.

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

Pilpay

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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.

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

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

Getty, J. Paul

26.

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

27.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

29.

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

30.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

31.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

32.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Salazar, Alberto

36.

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

Jong, Erica

37.

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

38.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

39.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

40.

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.

41.

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

Sarton, May

42.

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

Woodberry, George E.

43.

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

44.

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

Kroc, Ray

45.

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

Gerstner, Lou

46.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

47.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

48.

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

49.

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

50.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.