Motivational Quotes

Risk

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

- Gerstner, Lou

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Danton, Georges

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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Aesop

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Allen, Woody

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

Frost, Robert

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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.

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

Soul, Julia

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, American

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Virgil

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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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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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

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Sculley, John

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

Kazan, Elia

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Stine, Richard

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

Patton, George S.

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

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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

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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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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.

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

Sarton, May

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