Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

Best Quotes about Risk

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

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Virgil

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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

Pilpay

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Soul, Julia

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Jong, Erica

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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

36.

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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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