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

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

West, Meredith

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

Patton, George S.

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

Danton, Georges

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Lippmann, Walter

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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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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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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Allen, Woody

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

Soul, Julia

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

27.

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

28.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Proverb, American

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

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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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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Jong, Erica

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Platen

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

Jong, Erica

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

Erica Jong

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.