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

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

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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

Jong, Erica

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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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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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Pilpay

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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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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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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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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Aesop

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

Krone, Julie

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

34.

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

Ovid

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Platen

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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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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.