Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Metastasio, Pietro

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Ovid

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Kroc, Ray

10.

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

Aesop

11.

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

Burke, James E.

12.

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

Ali, Muhammad

13.

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

Virgil

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Sarton, May

18.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Moss, Stirling

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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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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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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

34.

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

West, Meredith

35.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Joaquin Setanti

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

46.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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

Platen

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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.