Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Hines, Duncan

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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

Nolte, Nick

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Danton, Georges

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

Patton, George S.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Frost, Robert

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

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

Aesop

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

Shaw, P.K.

20.

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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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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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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Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

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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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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Jong, Erica

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

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Krone, Julie

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?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