Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Aesop

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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

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

Ovid

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

33.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Krone, Julie

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

Eliot, T. S.

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Jong, Erica

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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

Lillian Carter

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sarton, May

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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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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