Motivational Quotes

Risk

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

- Helmuth von Moltke

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

West, Meredith

10.

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.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Patton, George S.

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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

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

16.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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

Platen

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Jong, Erica

21.

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

Nolte, Nick

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ovid

24.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

27.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

29.

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

Proverb, American

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

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

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Joaquin Setanti

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Julia Sorel

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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

47.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray