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

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

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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.

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

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Collier, Robert

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

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

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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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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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

Pilpay

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

West, Meredith

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

Krone, Julie

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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