Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

West, Meredith

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.

John F. Kennedy

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Bradbury, Ray

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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 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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

11.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Ovid

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

Proverb, American

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

Sculley, John

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

Moss, Stirling

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lillian Carter

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

Pilpay

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

31.

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

Krone, Julie

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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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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lippmann, Walter

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.