Motivational Quotes

Risk

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Sarton, May

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

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

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Sculley, John

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Platen

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

Horace

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Pilpay

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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

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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.

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Brown, Les

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Krone, Julie

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.