Motivational Quotes

Risk

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.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Sarton, May

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

Pilpay

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

Lillian Carter

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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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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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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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Danton, Georges

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

Krone, Julie

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

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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

West, Meredith

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Aesop

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

Platen

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George 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 we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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