Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- West, Meredith

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Toffler, Alvin

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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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

24.

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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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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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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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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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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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

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

Pilpay

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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

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

Horace

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

Aesop

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

Erica Jong