Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Erica Jong

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jong, Erica

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

Collier, Robert

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Ali, Muhammad

12.

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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

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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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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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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

28.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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 stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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

Erica Jong

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Brown, Les

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

Platen

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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