Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

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

Soul, Julia

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

Kroc, Ray

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Patton, George S.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

West, Meredith

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

Repplier, Agnes

11.

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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Krone, Julie

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

Moss, Stirling

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

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

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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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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 easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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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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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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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

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

33.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

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

Allen, Woody

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Danton, Georges

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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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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

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Sarton, May

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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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?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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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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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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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

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

Koestler, Arthur