Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Frost, Robert

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

Danton, Georges

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Burke, James E.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Pilpay

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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Sculley, John

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

34.

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Patton, George S.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Krone, Julie

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

Jong, Erica

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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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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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