Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Risk

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Kroc, Ray

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.

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

Krone, Julie

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

Stine, Richard

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

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

Proverb, American

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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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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?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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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.

Pilpay

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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

Aesop

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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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