Motivational Quotes

Risk

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Collier, Robert

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Platen

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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.

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

10.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

11.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

12.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

13.

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

14.

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

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

Virgil

16.

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

Kroc, Ray

17.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

18.

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

Kazan, Elia

19.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

21.

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

Soul, Julia

22.

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

24.

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

Aesop

26.

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

Erica Jong

28.

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

29.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

30.

Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

31.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

32.

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

Moss, Stirling

33.

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

Jong, Erica

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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

35.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

36.

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

37.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

38.

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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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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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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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

42.

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

Proverb, American

43.

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

44.

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

West, Meredith

45.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

46.

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

49.

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

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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