Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Krone, Julie

Best Quotes about Risk

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Pilpay

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

Hines, Duncan

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

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

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

Jong, Erica

10.

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

11.

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

Platen

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ovid

14.

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

Rohn, Jim

15.

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

Proverb, American

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

18.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

19.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

21.

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

30.

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

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

Horace

32.

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

34.

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

Soul, Julia

35.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

36.

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

Krone, Julie

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

Burke, James E.

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

Julia Sorel

40.

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

Aesop

41.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Gardner, John W.

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Ali, Muhammad

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Wilcox, Frederick