Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Sculley, John

Best Quotes about Risk

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Gretzky, Wayne

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

18.

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

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

21.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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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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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

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Aesop

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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

39.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Krone, Julie

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Gardner, John W.