Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Hines, Duncan

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

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

Havlicek, John

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Repplier, Agnes

10.

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

Kazan, Elia

11.

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

12.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

13.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

14.

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

15.

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

Erica Jong

16.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

17.

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

Sculley, John

18.

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

Nolte, Nick

19.

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

Koestler, Arthur

20.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

22.

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

23.

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

Gardner, John W.

24.

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

Krone, Julie

25.

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

Stine, Richard

26.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

28.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

29.

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

30.

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

Gerstner, Lou

31.

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

32.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

John F. Kennedy

34.

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

Proverb, American

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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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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Eliot, T. S.

39.

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

Pilpay

40.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

41.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

42.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

43.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

44.

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Jong, Erica

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

Woodberry, George E.

47.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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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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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