Motivational Quotes

Risk

Run for daylight.

- Lombardi, Vince

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

2.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

3.

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

Lillian Carter

4.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

5.

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

Kazan, Elia

6.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

7.

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

8.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

9.

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

Danton, Georges

10.

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

11.

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

Repplier, Agnes

12.

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

Virgil

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

19.

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.

20.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Pilpay

24.

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

25.

Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

26.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

27.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

28.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

29.

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

Shaw, P.K.

30.

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

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

33.

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

34.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

35.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

36.

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

Jong, Erica

37.

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

Soul, Julia

38.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

39.

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

41.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

42.

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

Allen, Woody

43.

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

44.

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

Krone, Julie

45.

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

Aesop

46.

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

47.

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