Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Platen

Best Quotes about Risk

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

James, William

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

West, Meredith

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Patton, George S.

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.

To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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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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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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

20.

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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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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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Ovid

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Proverb, American

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

Bradbury, Ray

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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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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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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Hines, Duncan

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Krone, Julie

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