Motivational Quotes

Risk

Educated risks are the key to success.

- Olsten, William

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Havlicek, John

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Bradbury, Ray

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.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Platen

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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

Proverb, American

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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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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.

Read, Randy

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Lillian Carter

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

Brown, Les

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

Jong, Erica

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

Horace

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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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

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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

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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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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