Motivational Quotes

Risk

There's no reward in life without risk.

- Farber, Barry J.

Best Quotes about Risk

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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

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

Julia Sorel

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

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

Frost, Robert

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

10.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

11.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Aesop

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

21.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Horace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Jong, Erica

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

Erica Jong

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

35.

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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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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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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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 are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

40.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

41.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Jong, Erica

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

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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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To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay