Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Pilpay

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Virgil

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

West, Meredith

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Brown, Les

?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

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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

11.

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

12.

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

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

18.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Danton, Georges

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Rohn, Jim

27.

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

28.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

29.

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

Jong, Erica

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Krone, Julie

32.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

35.

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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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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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

38.

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

Jong, Erica

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

40.

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

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

43.

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

Julia Sorel

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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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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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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.

49.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Lillian Carter