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

1.

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.

2.

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

Julia Sorel

3.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

4.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

5.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

6.

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

Kroc, Ray

7.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

8.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

Proverb, American

10.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

11.

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

12.

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

Shaw, P.K.

13.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

15.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

17.

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

Hines, Duncan

18.

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

Toffler, Alvin

19.

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

Pilpay

20.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

21.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

22.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

23.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

24.

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

Joaquin Setanti

25.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

26.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

27.

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

28.

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

West, Meredith

29.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

30.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

31.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

32.

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

Salazar, Alberto

33.

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

34.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

35.

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

Moss, Stirling

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Horace

39.

?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

40.

With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

41.

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

Gerstner, Lou

42.

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

Allen, Woody

43.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

44.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

45.

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

46.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

47.

Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

48.

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

49.

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

Virgil

50.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.