Motivational Quotes

Risk

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Hines, Duncan

?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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

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

Pilpay

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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

Julia Sorel

13.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Aesop

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

Ovid

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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

22.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

23.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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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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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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

James, William

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

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jong, Erica

35.

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

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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

40.

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

41.

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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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.

43.

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

Erica Jong

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Platen

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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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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

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke