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

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

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

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

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Burke, James E.

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

Havlicek, John

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

Ovid

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

Ash, Roy

10.

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

Krone, Julie

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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

13.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

15.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

16.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

17.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

18.

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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

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

Salazar, Alberto

22.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

23.

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

Gardner, John W.

24.

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

25.

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

Danton, Georges

26.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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

30.

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

31.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

32.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

33.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

34.

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

West, Meredith

35.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

41.

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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Woodberry, George E.

44.

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

Jong, Erica

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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

46.

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Ali, Muhammad

48.

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.

49.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Gerstner, Lou