Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Sculley, John

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Sarton, May

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

Hines, Duncan

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Ovid

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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

Platen

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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Patton, George S.

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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?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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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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