Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about 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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Horace

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

Moss, Stirling

If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

10.

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

11.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

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

13.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Danton, Georges

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

James, William

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

35.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Virgil

40.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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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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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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.