Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Danton, Georges

2.

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

Koestler, Arthur

3.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

4.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

5.

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

6.

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

Hines, Duncan

7.

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

8.

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.

9.

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

10.

Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

11.

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

Ovid

12.

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

13.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

14.

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

Kazan, Elia

15.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

16.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

17.

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

Julia Sorel

18.

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

Repplier, Agnes

19.

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

Sculley, John

20.

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

Sarton, May

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Eliot, T. S.

24.

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

Ali, Muhammad

25.

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

Toffler, Alvin

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

Joaquin Setanti

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

32.

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

Frost, Robert

33.

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

Churchill, Winston

34.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

35.

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

Platen

36.

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

37.

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

Moss, Stirling

38.

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

39.

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

Allen, Woody

40.

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

41.

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

42.

It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

43.

?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

44.

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