Motivational Quotes

Risk

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

- Koestler, Arthur

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Hines, Duncan

5.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

6.

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

7.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

8.

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

Proust, Marcel

9.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

10.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

11.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

12.

?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

13.

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

Allen, Woody

14.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

15.

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

Ash, Roy

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Sarton, May

19.

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

Stine, Richard

20.

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

Salazar, Alberto

21.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

22.

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

23.

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

Repplier, Agnes

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

27.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

29.

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

Rohn, Jim

30.

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

31.

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

Jong, Erica

32.

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

33.

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

Ali, Muhammad

34.

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

Erica Jong

35.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

36.

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

37.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

38.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

Havlicek, John

40.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

41.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

42.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

43.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

44.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

46.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

50.

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