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

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

Woodberry, George E.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Metastasio, Pietro

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lippmann, Walter

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

West, Meredith

10.

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

11.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

12.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Nolte, Nick

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

23.

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

Jong, Erica

24.

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

Patton, George S.

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

27.

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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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

29.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

30.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

31.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Aesop

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

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Havlicek, John

40.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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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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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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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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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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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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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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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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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.