Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Friedman, Milton

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.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

?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

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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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

11.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Proverb, American

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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 that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Pilpay

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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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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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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.

28.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

29.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Stine, Richard

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Ali, Muhammad

40.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Aesop

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

West, Meredith

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