Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Kazan, Elia

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

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

Aesop

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

Wilcox, Frederick

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

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

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

Lillian Carter

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

10.

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

Soul, Julia

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

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

Burke, James E.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

Shaw, P.K.

22.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Jong, Erica

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

31.

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

Erica Jong

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Stine, Richard

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

West, Meredith

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

Krone, Julie

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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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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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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sarton, May

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

Gardner, John W.

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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're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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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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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 is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

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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.

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