Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

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

Soul, Julia

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

Frost, Robert

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Allen, Woody

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

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.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Friedman, Milton

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Krone, Julie

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

Nolte, Nick

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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

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Havlicek, John

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

Kazan, Elia

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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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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

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

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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.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Ali, Muhammad

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