Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Sculley, John

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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.

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

Platen

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

Patton, George S.

10.

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

Jong, Erica

11.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

12.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Pilpay

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

Gerstner, Lou

15.

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

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

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

Ovid

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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

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

26.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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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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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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

Sculley, John

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

Rohn, Jim

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

43.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

46.

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

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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.