Motivational Quotes

Risk

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Risk

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proust, Marcel

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

Pilpay

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

West, Meredith

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

Platen

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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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

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

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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

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

Krone, Julie

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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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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