Motivational Quotes

Risk

To win you have to risk loss.

- Killy, Jean Claude

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Kroc, Ray

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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.

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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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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Nolte, Nick

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

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

Pilpay

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

Patton, George S.

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

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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Ovid

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Jong, Erica

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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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.