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

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ash, Mary Kay

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kroc, Ray

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Jong, Erica

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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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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Moss, Stirling

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Sarton, May

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

Jong, Erica

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