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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Jong, Erica

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

Metastasio, Pietro

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

West, Meredith

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Rohn, Jim

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Platen

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

James, William

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Burke, James E.

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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Allen, Woody

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

Woodberry, George E.

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