Motivational Quotes

Risk

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Risk

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

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

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

Horace

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

James, William

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Jong, Erica

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Patton, George S.

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

Krone, Julie

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

Sculley, John

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Jong, Erica

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

West, Meredith

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

28.

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 don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Rohn, Jim

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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

Soul, Julia

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

Aesop

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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

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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