Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

2.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

3.

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

4.

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

Allen, Woody

5.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

6.

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

7.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

8.

Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

9.

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

10.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

11.

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

12.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

13.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

14.

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

West, Meredith

15.

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

Frost, Robert

16.

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.

17.

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

Salazar, Alberto

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

23.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Nolte, Nick

27.

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

Bradbury, Ray

28.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

29.

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

Hines, Duncan

30.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

31.

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

Lippmann, Walter

32.

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

Jong, Erica

33.

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

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

38.

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

39.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

40.

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

Havlicek, John

41.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

42.

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.