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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Moss, Stirling

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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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

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Pilpay

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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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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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Aesop

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

Woodberry, George E.

33.

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

Erica Jong

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

Sculley, John

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?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

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Rohn, Jim

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