Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Rousseau, Jean Jacques

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Koestler, Arthur

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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

Virgil

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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Moss, Stirling

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

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

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

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Aesop

12.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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

Erica Jong

14.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

15.

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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Friedman, Milton

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

25.

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

West, Meredith

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Krone, Julie

30.

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

31.

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

Repplier, Agnes

32.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

33.

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

Nolte, Nick

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

35.

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

Gardner, John W.

36.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

41.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

43.

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

Julia Sorel

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

49.

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

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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