Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Risk

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.

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Burke, James E.

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

Eliot, T. S.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Joaquin Setanti

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Hines, Duncan

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

James, William

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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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 err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Aesop

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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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.