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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Gardner, John W.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

10.

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

Julia Sorel

11.

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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

13.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

15.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

16.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Allen, Woody

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?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

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

Soul, Julia

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

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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

25.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Hines, Duncan

28.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Proverb, American

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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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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Nolte, Nick

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

42.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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

Woodberry, George E.

45.

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

Ovid

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Proust, Marcel