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

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

James, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

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

Joaquin Setanti

13.

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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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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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

18.

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

Shaw, P.K.

19.

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

Jong, Erica

20.

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

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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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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

26.

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

27.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

28.

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

Eliot, T. S.

30.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Horace

32.

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

Ovid

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

35.

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 never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

42.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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