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

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

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

Kroc, Ray

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Aesop

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

West, Meredith

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

10.

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

11.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

12.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

13.

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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

15.

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

Erica Jong

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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

Jong, Erica

21.

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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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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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

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

32.

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

Platen

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

Danton, Georges

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

Proust, Marcel

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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

42.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Pilpay

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