Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Soul, Julia

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Collier, Robert

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

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

10.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

11.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

14.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

15.

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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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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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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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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If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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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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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

25.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Repplier, Agnes

28.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

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

Julia Sorel

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

Jong, Erica

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

38.

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

Krone, Julie

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

40.

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

Soul, Julia

42.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

43.

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

Jong, Erica

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.