Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Gerstner, Lou

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Krone, Julie

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

Aesop

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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

Horace

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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

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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Ovid

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

Danton, Georges

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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

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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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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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

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