Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Pilpay

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Sculley, John

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

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

Kroc, Ray

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

10.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Julia Sorel

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Krone, Julie

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Pilpay

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Patton, George S.

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

James, William

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Erica Jong

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

Jong, Erica

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

Stine, Richard

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

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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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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

41.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Proverb, American

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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