Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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.

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

Frost, Robert

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Burke, James E.

12.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

15.

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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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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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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

Jong, Erica

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

West, Meredith

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

James, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Horace

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

Pilpay

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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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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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.

John F. Kennedy

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

Patton, George S.

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Jong, Erica

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

Aesop

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

Allen, Woody