Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Sculley, John

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Jong, Erica

2.

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

3.

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

Proust, Marcel

4.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

5.

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

6.

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

Aesop

7.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

8.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

9.

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

Lippmann, Walter

10.

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

11.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

12.

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

13.

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

Kazan, Elia

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

17.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

18.

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

Soul, Julia

19.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

20.

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

21.

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

Moss, Stirling

22.

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

23.

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

Allen, Woody

24.

?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

25.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Toffler, Alvin

28.

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

29.

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

Gardner, John W.

30.

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

31.

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

Salazar, Alberto

32.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

33.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

34.

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

Sarton, May

35.

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.

36.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

37.

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

Platen

38.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

39.

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

Hines, Duncan

40.

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

Churchill, Winston

41.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

42.

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

43.

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

Joaquin Setanti

44.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

45.

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

Rohn, Jim

46.

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

47.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

48.

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

49.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

50.

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

Ash, Mary Kay