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 your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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.

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

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

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Pilpay

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

James, William

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Toffler, Alvin

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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 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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, American

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

Patton, George S.

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Erica Jong

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

39.

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.