Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Jong, Erica

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

Lillian Carter

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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

Jong, Erica

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Virgil

10.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

11.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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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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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 power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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

Gerstner, Lou

32.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Woodberry, George E.

34.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ali, Muhammad

39.

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

Patton, George S.

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Platen

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Pilpay

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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

Shaw, P.K.