Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Stine, Richard

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Lillian Carter

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

Rohn, Jim

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

West, Meredith

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.

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

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

Allen, Woody

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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Erica Jong

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Stine, Richard

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Soul, Julia

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Patton, George S.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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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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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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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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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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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