Motivational Quotes

Risk

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Risk

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Sarton, May

Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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

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

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

Nolte, Nick

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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Woodberry, George E.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Krone, Julie

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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Proverb, American

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

Jong, Erica

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Joaquin Setanti

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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?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

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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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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Sculley, John

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Aesop

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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