Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Stine, Richard

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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

Rohn, Jim

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Pilpay

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

Krone, Julie

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

Patton, George S.

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, American

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Jong, Erica

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Salazar, Alberto

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Platen

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

West, Meredith

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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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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Soul, Julia

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

Allen, Woody

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

Friedman, Milton

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

Collier, Robert

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ash, Roy

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If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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