Motivational Quotes

Risk

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

- Thackeray, William M.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Ash, Roy

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

Patton, George S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

10.

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

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

Sarton, May

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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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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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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

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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Horace

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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

37.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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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 dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Jong, Erica

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

James, William