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

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

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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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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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

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

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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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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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Pilpay

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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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.