Motivational Quotes

Risk

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Kazan, Elia

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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

Pilpay

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

James, William

11.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

West, Meredith

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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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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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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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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Julia Sorel

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

Soul, Julia

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If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Jong, Erica

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

Krone, Julie

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

Sculley, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ash, Roy

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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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

Eliot, T. S.