Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Salazar, Alberto

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Soul, Julia

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Havlicek, John

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

West, Meredith

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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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

18.

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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

28.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Patton, George S.

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Proverb, American

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Woodberry, George E.

41.

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

Sculley, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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

Erica Jong

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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