Motivational Quotes

Risk

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Havlicek, John

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Danton, Georges

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

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

Allen, Woody

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.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Friedman, Milton

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Erica Jong

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Krone, Julie

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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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

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

Stine, Richard

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

James, William

29.

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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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

Proverb, American

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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

West, Meredith

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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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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Hines, Duncan