Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Repplier, Agnes

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Platen

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

Patton, George S.

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

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

Jong, Erica

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Proverb, American

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

Ali, Muhammad

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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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

Pilpay

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Sculley, John

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Ovid

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

James, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Nolte, Nick

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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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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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.