Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Repplier, Agnes

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Jong, Erica

?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

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

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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

Hines, Duncan

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Soul, Julia

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Jong, Erica

11.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

14.

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

James, William

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Burke, James E.

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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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

21.

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

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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

23.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Brown, Les

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Stine, Richard

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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

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

Patton, George S.

33.

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

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Woodberry, George E.

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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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