Motivational Quotes

Risk

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

- Johnson, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Havlicek, John

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

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

Stine, Richard

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

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

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

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

Soul, Julia

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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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

Aesop

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Erica Jong

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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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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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

West, Meredith

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Krone, Julie

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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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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Joaquin Setanti

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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

Patton, George S.