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

1.

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

Burke, James E.

2.

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

3.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

4.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

5.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

6.

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

Eliot, T. S.

7.

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

8.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

9.

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

Virgil

10.

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

11.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

12.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

13.

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

James, William

14.

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

Havlicek, John

15.

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

Woodberry, George E.

16.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

17.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

18.

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

Aesop

19.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

20.

?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

21.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

22.

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

Nolte, Nick

23.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

24.

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

25.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

26.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

27.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

28.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

29.

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

Jong, Erica

30.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

32.

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

33.

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

Toffler, Alvin

34.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

41.

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

42.

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

43.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

44.

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

Ali, Muhammad

45.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

46.

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

Salazar, Alberto

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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.

50.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston