Motivational Quotes

Risk

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Risk

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Krone, Julie

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

Patton, George S.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

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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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

11.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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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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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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

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

Rohn, Jim

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Ash, Roy

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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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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.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Platen

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

35.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Ovid

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jong, Erica

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Nolte, Nick

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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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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Aesop

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.