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

1.

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

2.

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

Kazan, Elia

3.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

4.

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

5.

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

Ovid

6.

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

7.

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

James, William

8.

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

Lillian Carter

9.

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

Stine, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

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

14.

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

Horace

15.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

16.

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

Soul, Julia

17.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

18.

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

Burke, James E.

19.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

21.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

22.

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

23.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

24.

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

25.

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

Danton, Georges

26.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

27.

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

Ash, Roy

28.

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

29.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

30.

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

31.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

32.

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

33.

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

Shaw, P.K.

34.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

35.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

36.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

37.

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

Krone, Julie

38.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

39.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

Platen

43.

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

Proust, Marcel

44.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

45.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.

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

Erica Jong

47.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Nolte, Nick