Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Bradbury, Ray

2.

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

Getty, J. Paul

3.

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

4.

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

Danton, Georges

5.

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

6.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

7.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

8.

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

9.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

10.

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

11.

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

12.

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

Nolte, Nick

13.

Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

14.

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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

17.

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.

18.

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.

19.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

20.

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

Woodberry, George E.

21.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

22.

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

Sculley, John

23.

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

24.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

25.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

26.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

27.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

28.

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

Salazar, Alberto

29.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

30.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

31.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.

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

Soul, Julia

33.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

34.

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.

35.

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

Collier, Robert

36.

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

Aesop

37.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

38.

To save all we must risk all.