Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Repplier, Agnes

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

2.

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

Rohn, Jim

3.

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

Eliot, T. S.

4.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

5.

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

Patton, George S.

6.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

7.

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

Churchill, Winston

8.

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

9.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

10.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

11.

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

12.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

13.

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

14.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

15.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

16.

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

Krone, Julie

17.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

18.

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

Joaquin Setanti

19.

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

Sarton, May

20.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

21.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

22.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

23.

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

24.

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

25.

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

Allen, Woody

26.

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

27.

?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

28.

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

Horace

29.

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

30.

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

Nolte, Nick

31.

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

32.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

33.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

34.

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

Sculley, John

35.

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

Danton, Georges

36.

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

Aesop

37.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

38.

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

39.

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

40.

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

Jong, Erica

41.

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

Stine, Richard

42.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

43.

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

Ali, Muhammad

44.

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.

45.

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

Brown, Les

46.

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

47.

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

Gerstner, Lou

48.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

50.

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