Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Krone, Julie

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

Stine, Richard

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.

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

Platen

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

Sculley, John

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

Frost, Robert

10.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

11.

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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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.

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

14.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

16.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

19.

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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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

22.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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 not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Julia Sorel

30.

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

Jong, Erica

31.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

34.

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

West, Meredith

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

36.

?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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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

38.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

39.

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

Patton, George S.

40.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Soul, Julia

42.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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