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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Virgil

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

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

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

Sarton, May

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Aesop

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

Proverb, American

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

Ovid

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Platen

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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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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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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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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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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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