Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Patton, George S.

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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.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Burke, James E.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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