Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

James, William

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Brown, Les

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

Gardner, John W.

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

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Burke, James E.

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

Jong, Erica

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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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

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?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

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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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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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

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

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Sculley, John

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Ash, Roy

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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