Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Sarton, May

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

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

Soul, Julia

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

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hines, Duncan

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

James, William

10.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

11.

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Aesop

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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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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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If you want to stand out, don't be different, be outstanding.

West, Meredith

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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

24.

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

Kazan, Elia

25.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

26.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Churchill, Winston

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Proverb, American

40.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

41.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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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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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