Motivational Quotes

Risk

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Risk

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Kazan, Elia

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

Ash, Roy

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Havlicek, John

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

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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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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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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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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

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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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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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Hines, Duncan

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Krone, Julie

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

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

West, Meredith

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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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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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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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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John