Motivational Quotes

Risk

Daring is not safe against daring men.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Metastasio, Pietro

?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

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

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Churchill, Winston

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Moss, Stirling

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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

Jong, Erica

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Aesop

16.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

17.

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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Sculley, John

23.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

24.

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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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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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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

28.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

29.

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

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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

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

Pilpay

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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.

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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