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

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

Aesop

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Koestler, Arthur

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

11.

With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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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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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

15.

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

Gardner, John W.

18.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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

Stine, Richard

24.

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

25.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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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.

28.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

30.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Pilpay

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Havlicek, John

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

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

Ovid

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Sculley, John

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

Nolte, Nick

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.