Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Pilpay

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Sculley, John

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von