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

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Stine, Richard

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

Churchill, Winston

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Kroc, Ray

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Soul, Julia

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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

Allen, Woody

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Proverb, American

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pilpay

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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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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Sarton, May

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Woodberry, George E.

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Keller, Helen

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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