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

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Moss, Stirling

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.

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

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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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Frost, Robert

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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Jong, Erica

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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

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

Nolte, Nick

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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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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.

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Pilpay

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

Ash, Roy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

James, William

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out