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

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Platen

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

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

Lillian Carter

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

Danton, Georges

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

Shaw, P.K.

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

20.

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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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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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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.

John F. Kennedy

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

Friedman, Milton

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Ovid

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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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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Aesop

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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