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

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Julia Sorel

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

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

10.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

11.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

12.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

15.

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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Stine, Richard

18.

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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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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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

21.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

22.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Pilpay

28.

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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

30.

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

Kroc, Ray

31.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Ali, Muhammad

34.

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

Proust, Marcel

35.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Platen

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

Havlicek, John

42.

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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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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

Jong, Erica

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

Nolte, Nick

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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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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian