Motivational Quotes

Risk

Educated risks are the key to success.

- Olsten, William

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Pilpay

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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

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

Julia Sorel

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Repplier, Agnes

10.

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

Nolte, Nick

11.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

12.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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

Gerstner, Lou

14.

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

Ash, Roy

15.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

16.

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.

Read, Randy

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

Johnson, Jimmy

18.

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

Aesop

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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

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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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

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

Sarton, May

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

Krone, Julie

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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

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

Jong, Erica

33.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

35.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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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

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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