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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Jong, Erica

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

Moss, Stirling

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It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, American

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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 save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pilpay

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

Patton, George S.

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

Kroc, Ray

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Rohn, Jim

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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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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You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Allen, Woody

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Frost, Robert