Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Risk

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kazan, Elia

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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

Ash, Roy

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Patton, George S.

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

32.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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

Horace

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Allen, Woody

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If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

Krone, Julie

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

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

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

Sarton, May

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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