Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Krone, Julie

Best Quotes about Risk

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

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Havlicek, John

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Burke, James E.

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

Danton, Georges

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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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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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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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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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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

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Platen

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Brown, Les

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

Ovid

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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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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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Allen, Woody

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

West, Meredith

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

Horace

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Rohn, Jim

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