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

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

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

Proust, Marcel

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Erica Jong

12.

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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

West, Meredith

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

Burke, James E.

18.

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

James, William

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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

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

Krone, Julie

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Danton, Georges

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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

29.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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

31.

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

Patton, George S.

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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

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

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

Jong, Erica

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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.

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

Platen

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

Proverb, American

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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.

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

42.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

43.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Kazan, Elia