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

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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

Koestler, Arthur

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Havlicek, John

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.

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

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Soul, Julia

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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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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Stine, Richard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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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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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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 is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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

Sculley, John

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.