Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- West, Meredith

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Woodberry, George E.

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

10.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

West, Meredith

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

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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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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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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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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Sculley, John

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Eliot, T. S.

27.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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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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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pilpay

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Toffler, Alvin

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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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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

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

Aesop

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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Havlicek, John

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

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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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