Motivational Quotes

Risk

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

- Havlicek, John

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Sarton, May

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Johnson, Jimmy

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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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

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sculley, John

13.

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

West, Meredith

14.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

15.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

16.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

17.

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

18.

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

Ali, Muhammad

19.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

20.

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

Friedman, Milton

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Pilpay

25.

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

26.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

27.

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

Repplier, Agnes

28.

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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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

30.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

34.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

35.

Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Kroc, Ray

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

38.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

40.

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

41.

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

Jong, Erica

42.

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

Julia Sorel

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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

44.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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