Motivational Quotes

Risk

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

- Julia Sorel

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Joaquin Setanti

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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

Rohn, Jim

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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

Allen, Woody

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

Moss, Stirling

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

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

10.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

11.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

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

Horace

17.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

18.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

19.

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

Gerstner, Lou

20.

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

Burke, James E.

21.

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

Stine, Richard

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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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

30.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

31.

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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

35.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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

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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 was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Platen

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Pilpay

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