Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Lillian Carter

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

Ovid

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

Havlicek, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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

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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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

Stine, Richard

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Proverb, American

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Pilpay

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Sarton, May

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Woodberry, George E.