Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Repplier, Agnes

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Danton, Georges

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

?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

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

Jong, Erica

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

Burke, James E.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Aesop

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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.

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Kazan, Elia

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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

Allen, Woody

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Nolte, Nick

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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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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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