Motivational Quotes

Risk

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Risk

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Hines, Duncan

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

West, Meredith

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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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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Virgil

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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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.

26.

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

Sculley, John

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Ali, Muhammad

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Platen

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Havlicek, John

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