Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Wilcox, Frederick

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Rohn, Jim

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Lillian Carter

You can't steal second base with your foot on first.

Proverb, American

If you want to launch big ships you have to go where the water is deep.

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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.

12.

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

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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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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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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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

20.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

21.

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

Erica Jong

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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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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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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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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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

Jong, Erica

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Pilpay

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

West, Meredith

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

33.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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 don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

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

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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick