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

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

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Brown, Les

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

West, Meredith

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

Winfrey, Oprah

18.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Havlicek, John

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

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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

Aesop

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

Horace

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

Hines, Duncan

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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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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

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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

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