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

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

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

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Jong, Erica

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

West, Meredith

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

Jong, Erica

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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

Gerstner, Lou

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Proverb, American

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ovid

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.