Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Lippmann, Walter

Best Quotes about Risk

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.

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

Aesop

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Ash, Mary Kay

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Jong, Erica

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

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Krone, Julie

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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

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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

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

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

Sculley, John

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

Burke, James E.

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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 was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Sarton, May

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

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

Soul, Julia

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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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?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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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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

Nolte, Nick

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

West, Meredith

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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von