Motivational Quotes

Risk

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

- Keller, Helen

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Frost, Robert

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Kroc, Ray

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Moss, Stirling

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

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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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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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

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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

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

Platen

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

West, Meredith

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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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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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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

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

James, William

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Burke, James E.

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Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

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

Proverb, American

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

Danton, Georges

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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