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

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lillian Carter

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

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

West, Meredith

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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

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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Proverb, American

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

Horace

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Sculley, John

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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 comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

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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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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Havlicek, John

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I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur