Motivational Quotes

Risk

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Best Quotes about Risk

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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

2.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

3.

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

Havlicek, John

4.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

5.

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

6.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

7.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

8.

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

Patton, George S.

9.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

13.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

14.

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

Julia Sorel

15.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

16.

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

Salazar, Alberto

17.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

18.

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

19.

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

Jong, Erica

20.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

21.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

23.

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

Frost, Robert

24.

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

Ali, Muhammad

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

Platen

27.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

28.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

29.

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

Kazan, Elia

30.

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

Lippmann, Walter

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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

Getty, J. Paul

33.

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

34.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

36.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

37.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

40.

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

Repplier, Agnes

41.

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

Gerstner, Lou

42.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

43.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

44.

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

Jong, Erica

45.

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.

46.

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

47.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

48.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

49.

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

50.

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