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

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

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.

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

Moss, Stirling

?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

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

Burke, James E.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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

Kazan, Elia

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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

James, William

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Salazar, Alberto

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Platen

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Soul, Julia

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Horace

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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

Shaw, P.K.

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Friedman, Milton