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

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

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

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Lillian Carter

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

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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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

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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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

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

West, Meredith

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Soul, Julia

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Sculley, John

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Krone, Julie

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

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Shaw, P.K.

41.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo