Motivational Quotes

Risk

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Aesop

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

Ali, Muhammad

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

10.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

11.

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

12.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

13.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

14.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

15.

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.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

18.

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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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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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

21.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

22.

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

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

Joaquin Setanti

25.

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

Burke, James E.

26.

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

27.

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

Moss, Stirling

28.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Ovid

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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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

33.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Toffler, Alvin

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

37.

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

38.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

39.

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

James, William

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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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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.

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Salazar, Alberto

46.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.