Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Krone, Julie

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

2.

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.

3.

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.

4.

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

5.

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

Koestler, Arthur

6.

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

Allen, Woody

7.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

8.

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

Julia Sorel

9.

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

10.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

11.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

12.

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

13.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

14.

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

Proverb, American

15.

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

Lillian Carter

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

21.

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

Toffler, Alvin

22.

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

Friedman, Milton

23.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

24.

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

Sculley, John

25.

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

26.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

27.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

28.

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

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

31.

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

Ali, Muhammad

32.

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

33.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

34.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

35.

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

Eliot, T. S.

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

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.

40.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

41.

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

Jong, Erica

42.

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

Havlicek, John

43.

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

Stine, Richard

44.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

45.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

46.

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

Platen

47.

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

48.

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

Danton, Georges

49.

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

50.

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

Maltz, Maxwell