Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Kierkegaard, S°ren

Best Quotes about Risk

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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

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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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

18.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

20.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Pilpay

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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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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?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

38.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Platen

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

43.

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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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

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a risk.