Motivational Quotes

Risk

To win you have to risk loss.

- Killy, Jean Claude

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Sarton, May

2.

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

3.

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

Collier, Robert

4.

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

Soul, Julia

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

Ovid

8.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

9.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

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

Friedman, Milton

13.

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

Pilpay

14.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

15.

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

16.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

20.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

21.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

22.

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

23.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

27.

?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

28.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

29.

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

Proust, Marcel

30.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

31.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

32.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

Nolte, Nick

34.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

35.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

36.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

37.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

38.

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

James, William

39.

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

Stine, Richard

40.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

41.

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

Patton, George S.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Krone, Julie

45.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

46.

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

Ali, Muhammad

47.

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