Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Friedman, Milton

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

2.

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

3.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

4.

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

Sarton, May

5.

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

Nolte, Nick

6.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

7.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

8.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

9.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

10.

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

11.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

12.

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.

13.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

14.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

15.

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

Toffler, Alvin

16.

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

Allen, Woody

17.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

18.

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

Soul, Julia

19.

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

20.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

21.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

22.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

23.

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

Danton, Georges

24.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

25.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

26.

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

27.

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

Frost, Robert

28.

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

Bradbury, Ray

29.

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

Koestler, Arthur

30.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

31.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

32.

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

Erica Jong

33.

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

34.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

35.

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

36.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

37.

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

38.

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

Woodberry, George E.

39.

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.

40.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

41.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

42.

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

James, William

43.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

44.

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

45.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

46.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

47.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

48.

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.

49.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

50.

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

Patton, George S.