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

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Allen, Woody

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

Moss, Stirling

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Rohn, Jim

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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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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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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Sculley, John

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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

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

Krone, Julie

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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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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Horace

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

Jong, Erica

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

Danton, Georges

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.