Motivational Quotes

Risk

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

2.

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

3.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

4.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

5.

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

Pilpay

6.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

7.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

8.

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

Rohn, Jim

9.

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

Sculley, John

10.

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

11.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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.

Kennedy, John F.

15.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

16.

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

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

19.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

20.

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

Aesop

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Lillian Carter

24.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

25.

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

26.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

27.

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

Eliot, T. S.

28.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

29.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

31.

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

Woodberry, George E.

32.

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

Moss, Stirling

33.

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

34.

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

Toffler, Alvin

35.

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

36.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

37.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

38.

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

39.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Joaquin Setanti

43.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

44.

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