Motivational Quotes

Risk

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Risk

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Danton, Georges

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

It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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

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

Sarton, May

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

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

10.

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

11.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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

Julia Sorel

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Erica Jong

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

Platen

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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

Burke, James E.

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

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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

West, Meredith

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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.