Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Horace

?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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Pilpay

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Salazar, Alberto

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

10.

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

11.

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

Virgil

12.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

14.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

15.

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

16.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

Proverb, American

18.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

19.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

20.

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

Soul, Julia

21.

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

22.

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

Ovid

23.

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

Nolte, Nick

24.

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

25.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

26.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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.

29.

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

Kazan, Elia

30.

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

Frost, Robert

31.

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

32.

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

33.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Platen

35.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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