Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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.

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

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Aesop

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

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're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Erica Jong

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Brown, Les

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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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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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

James, William

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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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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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

West, Meredith

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

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.