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.

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

2.

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

Danton, Georges

3.

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

4.

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

5.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

6.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

7.

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.

8.

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

Ali, Muhammad

9.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

10.

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.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

13.

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

14.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

15.

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

Friedman, Milton

16.

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

Horace

17.

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

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

20.

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

21.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

22.

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

Aesop

23.

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

24.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

25.

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

Sarton, May

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.

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

Bradbury, Ray

28.

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

Shaw, P.K.

29.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

30.

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.

31.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

33.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.

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

35.

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

Erica Jong

36.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

37.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

38.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

39.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

42.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

44.

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

Soul, Julia

45.

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.

46.

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

Moss, Stirling

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin