Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

Krone, Julie

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

Hines, Duncan

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

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

Soul, Julia

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Platen

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

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

West, Meredith

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Lippmann, Walter

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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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.

29.

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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

31.

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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

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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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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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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Horace

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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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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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To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Metastasio, Pietro