Motivational Quotes

Risk

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.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Patton, George S.

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

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

Platen

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

Nolte, Nick

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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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Jong, Erica

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Woodberry, George E.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

West, Meredith

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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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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.

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

Kroc, Ray

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Burke, James E.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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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.