Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Vauvenargues, Marquis De

Best Quotes about Risk

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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

Virgil

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Gretzky, Wayne

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Lillian Carter

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Sarton, May

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jong, Erica

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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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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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

24.

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

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Proverb, American

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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?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

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

Platen

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If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg