Motivational Quotes

Risk

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Risk

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

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.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Platen

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Burke, James E.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Stine, Richard

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Jong, Erica

14.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

15.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

16.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

17.

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

18.

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

23.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

24.

?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

25.

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

Erica Jong

26.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

27.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

28.

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

Sculley, John

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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

30.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

31.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

32.

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

James, William

33.

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

34.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

36.

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

Julia Sorel

37.

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

Gerstner, Lou

38.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

39.

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

40.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

41.

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

Danton, Georges

42.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

43.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

44.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

45.

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

Salazar, Alberto

46.

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

Ovid

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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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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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