Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Sarton, May

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

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

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

Soul, Julia

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

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

?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

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Platen

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

15.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

16.

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

Nolte, Nick

17.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Getty, J. Paul

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, American

23.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

24.

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

West, Meredith

25.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

26.

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.

27.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

28.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

29.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

30.

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

Joaquin Setanti

31.

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

32.

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

33.

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

Ali, Muhammad

34.

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

Toffler, Alvin

35.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

36.

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

Shaw, P.K.

37.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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

39.

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

Patton, George S.

40.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

41.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

42.

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

Krone, Julie

43.

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

44.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

45.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

46.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

47.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

48.

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

49.

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

Eliot, T. S.

50.

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