Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Aesop

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

Erica Jong

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Ovid

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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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

20.

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

Lillian Carter

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Patton, George S.

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

Danton, Georges

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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.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Proverb, American

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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

Sculley, John

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Burke, James E.

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