Motivational Quotes

Risk

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

- Kazan, Elia

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

2.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

3.

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

4.

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

5.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

6.

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

Shaw, P.K.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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.

10.

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

Pilpay

11.

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.

12.

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

Friedman, Milton

13.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

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

15.

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

16.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

17.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

18.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

19.

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

Ash, Roy

20.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

21.

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

Erica Jong

22.

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

Rohn, Jim

23.

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

Salazar, Alberto

24.

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

Proust, Marcel

25.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Gardner, John W.

27.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

28.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

29.

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

Collier, Robert

30.

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

James, William

31.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

32.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

33.

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

34.

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

35.

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

Allen, Woody

36.

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

Jong, Erica

37.

Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

38.

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

Soul, Julia

39.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

40.

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

Moss, Stirling

41.

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

Krone, Julie

42.

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

Repplier, Agnes

43.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

44.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

45.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

47.

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

Danton, Georges

48.

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

49.

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

Getty, J. Paul

50.

Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.