Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Erica Jong

Best Quotes about Risk

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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.

Kennedy, John F.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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

Danton, Georges

11.

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

Erica Jong

12.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

18.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

19.

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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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

21.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Rohn, Jim

23.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Woodberry, George E.

31.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Eliot, T. S.

34.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Allen, Woody

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Kazan, Elia

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De