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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Aesop

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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.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Burke, James E.

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Soul, Julia

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

West, Meredith

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Koestler, Arthur