Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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.

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.

John F. Kennedy

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

Jong, Erica

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Pilpay

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

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Koestler, Arthur

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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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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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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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

Lillian Carter

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

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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

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

Julia Sorel

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

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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

Ovid

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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

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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 risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

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

Moss, Stirling

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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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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Krone, Julie

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides