Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Stine, Richard

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

Aesop

10.

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

11.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

12.

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

Platen

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

Soul, Julia

14.

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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You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

16.

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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

18.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

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

West, Meredith

20.

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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Friedman, Milton

25.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

26.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

27.

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

28.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

33.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

34.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Burke, James E.

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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.

Brown, Les

39.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

40.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

41.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

42.

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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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.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Danton, Georges

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

Proverb, American

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

Erica Jong

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

Sculley, John