Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Soul, Julia

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Collier, Robert

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

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

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

Joaquin Setanti

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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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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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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Rohn, Jim

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Woodberry, George E.

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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

Sarton, May

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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 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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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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

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

Sculley, John

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

Pilpay

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.