Motivational Quotes

Risk

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Maltz, Maxwell

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Virgil

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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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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Platen

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

Nolte, Nick

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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

Danton, Georges

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

Jong, Erica

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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

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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

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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

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

Proverb, American