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

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

Horace

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

Gretzky, Wayne

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

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

Frost, Robert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Maltz, Maxwell

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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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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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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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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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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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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jong, Erica

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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

West, Meredith

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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

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

James, William

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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

Sarton, May

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

Erica Jong

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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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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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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

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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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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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 tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Sculley, John