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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

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

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

Allen, Woody

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Pilpay

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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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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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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People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Salazar, Alberto

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ali, Muhammad

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Daring is not safe against daring men.