Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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

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.

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

Lillian Carter

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

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

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

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

12.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

13.

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

14.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

15.

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

16.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

17.

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

18.

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

Virgil

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

25.

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

Proust, Marcel

26.

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

Frost, Robert

27.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

28.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

29.

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

Soul, Julia

30.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

31.

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

32.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

33.

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

Platen

34.

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

Gardner, John W.

35.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

36.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Hines, Duncan

41.

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

Burke, James E.

42.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

43.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

44.

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

Rohn, Jim

45.

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

46.

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

48.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

49.

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

Johnson, Jimmy