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

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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.

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

11.

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

Sarton, May

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

19.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Aesop

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

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

Patton, George S.

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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

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

Hines, Duncan

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

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

Platen

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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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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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick