Motivational Quotes

Risk

Run for daylight.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Salazar, Alberto

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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.

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.

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

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

Ovid

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Aesop

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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

West, Meredith

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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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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.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Soul, Julia

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Pilpay

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

Hines, Duncan

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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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Havlicek, John

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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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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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! 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