Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Pilpay

Best Quotes about Risk

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

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

Havlicek, John

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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

Platen

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

James, William

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

19.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Pilpay

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

Ovid

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

37.

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

West, Meredith

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Gerstner, Lou

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Krone, Julie

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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.