Motivational Quotes

Risk

?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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Havlicek, John

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

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Pilpay

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Nolte, Nick

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

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

Burke, James E.

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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

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

Aesop

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

Allen, Woody

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

Julia Sorel

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Sculley, John

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

Ovid

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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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

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

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

Sarton, May

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

Patton, George S.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.