Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

2.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

3.

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

Churchill, Winston

4.

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

Koestler, Arthur

5.

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

Ovid

6.

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

7.

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

Collier, Robert

8.

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.

9.

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.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

13.

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

Friedman, Milton

14.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

15.

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

16.

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

Woodberry, George E.

17.

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

18.

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

Shaw, P.K.

19.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

20.

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

Proverb, American

21.

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

22.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

23.

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

Sculley, John

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

26.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

27.

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

Kazan, Elia

28.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

29.

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

Jong, Erica

30.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

31.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

32.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Julia Sorel

36.

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

Bradbury, Ray

37.

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

Patton, George S.

38.

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

39.

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

West, Meredith

40.

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

Horace

41.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

42.

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

43.

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

Danton, Georges

44.

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

Repplier, Agnes

45.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

46.

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

Ali, Muhammad

47.

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

Soul, Julia

48.

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

Gardner, John W.

49.

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

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