Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Moss, Stirling

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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

Ovid

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

10.

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

11.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Allen, Woody

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

18.

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

Nolte, Nick

20.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Julia Sorel

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

Patton, George S.

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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

29.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

30.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

James, William

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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

34.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Sculley, John

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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

Platen

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

West, Meredith

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

46.

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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Sarton, May

49.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.