Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

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

Allen, Woody

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

Danton, Georges

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

Kazan, Elia

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

?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

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

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

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.

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

Erica Jong

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Ash, Roy

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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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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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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

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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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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Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Platen

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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

Toffler, Alvin

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Julia Sorel

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

Soul, Julia

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

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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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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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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

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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