Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Jong, Erica

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Burke, James E.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Brown, Les

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.

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Hines, Duncan

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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

Pilpay

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

Kazan, Elia

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

West, Meredith

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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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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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It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Patton, George S.

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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