Motivational Quotes

Risk

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Burke, James E.

?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

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Krone, Julie

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

Toffler, Alvin

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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 don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Danton, Georges

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

Hines, Duncan

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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

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

Soul, Julia

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There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Pilpay

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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.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Allen, Woody

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Jong, Erica

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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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I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Woodberry, George E.

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