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

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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

Jong, Erica

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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.

Frost, Robert

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

Erica Jong

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Pilpay

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

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

Stine, Richard

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Platen

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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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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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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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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

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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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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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What you risk reveals what you value.