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

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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

2.

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

Gerstner, Lou

3.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

4.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

5.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

6.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

7.

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

Jong, Erica

8.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

9.

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

Allen, Woody

10.

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

Kroc, Ray

11.

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

Aesop

12.

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

Lillian Carter

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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

14.

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

15.

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

Frost, Robert

16.

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

17.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

18.

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

19.

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

Sculley, John

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

25.

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

Woodberry, George E.

26.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

27.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

28.

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

29.

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

Repplier, Agnes

30.

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

31.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

32.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

33.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

34.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

35.

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

Jong, Erica

36.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

37.

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

Shaw, P.K.

38.

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

Ali, Muhammad

39.

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

40.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

41.

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

Moss, Stirling

42.

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

Sarton, May

43.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

44.

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

45.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

46.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

47.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

48.

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

49.

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

Pilpay

50.

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