Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Krone, Julie

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

Allen, Woody

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

11.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Hines, Duncan

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Jong, Erica

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

Jong, Erica

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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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To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Ali, Muhammad

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It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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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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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

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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Proverb, American

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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Soul, Julia

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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