Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Willis, Nathaniel P.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Burke, James E.

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

Krone, Julie

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

10.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

11.

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

12.

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

Friedman, Milton

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Danton, Georges

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

Platen

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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

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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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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

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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.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Patton, George S.

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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Ovid

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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

35.

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

West, Meredith

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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

Pilpay

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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

40.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

42.

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

Horace

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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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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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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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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick