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

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

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

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

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

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

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

?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

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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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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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

13.

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

Proverb, American

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Krone, Julie

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

22.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Virgil

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

Sculley, John

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

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

34.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Patton, George S.

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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

Bradbury, Ray

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.