Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Gerstner, Lou

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Eliot, T. S.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Lippmann, Walter

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Danton, Georges

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Soul, Julia

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

Pilpay

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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

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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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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 never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

Proverb, American

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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

41.

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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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

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Bradbury, Ray