Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Burke, James E.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Jong, Erica

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

James, William

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

Krone, Julie

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Horace

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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.

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Jong, Erica

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Platen

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

Ovid

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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

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

Erica Jong

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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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

34.

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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

West, Meredith

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

Proust, Marcel

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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