Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Soul, Julia

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

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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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

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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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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

James, William

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

Patton, George S.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Jong, Erica

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

Gardner, John W.

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Burke, James E.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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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

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

Jong, Erica

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Sculley, John

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Keller, Helen