Motivational Quotes

Risk

Daring is not safe against daring men.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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

Burke, James E.

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

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

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Frost, Robert

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

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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Danton, Georges

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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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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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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

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon