Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Jong, Erica

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

James, William

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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

Allen, Woody

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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

Erica Jong

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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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

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

West, Meredith

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

Stine, Richard

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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

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

Platen

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

Pilpay

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

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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.

John F. Kennedy

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Soul, Julia

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

Patton, George S.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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