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

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Bradbury, Ray

10.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Ash, Roy

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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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Woodberry, George E.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Aesop

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Rohn, Jim

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Jong, Erica

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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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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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

Julia Sorel

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Jong, Erica

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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.

Conner, Mike

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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?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

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