Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Stine, Richard

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Erica Jong

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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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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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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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

Jong, Erica

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Danton, Georges

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

Jong, Erica

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.