Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Risk

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Ali, Muhammad

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Virgil

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

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Jong, Erica

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Gerstner, Lou

17.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

18.

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

19.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

20.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

21.

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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Frost, Robert

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

Platen

32.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

33.

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

James, William

34.

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

Pilpay

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Erica Jong

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

39.

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

40.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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