Motivational Quotes

Risk

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

- Proverb, Arabian

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

2.

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

Bradbury, Ray

3.

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

West, Meredith

4.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

5.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

6.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

7.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

8.

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

Krone, Julie

9.

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

10.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

11.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

18.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

19.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

20.

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

Soul, Julia

21.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

22.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

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

27.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

28.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

29.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

30.

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

Getty, J. Paul

31.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

32.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

33.

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

Platen

34.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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.

36.

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

Rohn, Jim

37.

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

Proust, Marcel

38.

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

Danton, Georges

39.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

40.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

41.

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

Allen, Woody

42.

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

Salazar, Alberto

43.

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

44.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

45.

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

Kroc, Ray

46.

You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

50.

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