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

Brown, Les

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Ovid

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

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

Lillian Carter

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

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

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

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Aesop

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

Moss, Stirling

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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Krone, Julie

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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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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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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

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

West, Meredith

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

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

Erica Jong

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

Salazar, Alberto

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Proverb, American

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Danton, Georges

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson