Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Nolte, Nick

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Julia Sorel

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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

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

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Soul, Julia

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Frost, Robert

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

Ash, Roy

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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

Havlicek, John

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

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

Nolte, Nick

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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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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Rohn, Jim

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

James, William

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

Virgil

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Patton, George S.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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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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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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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