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

?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

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

Lillian Carter

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

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.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

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

Moss, Stirling

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Getty, J. Paul

10.

During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

11.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

12.

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

Allen, Woody

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

Ali, Muhammad

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

James, William

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

28.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Soul, Julia

30.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

31.

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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

33.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.

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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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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Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Krone, Julie

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

41.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

42.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Virgil

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

Jong, Erica

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

49.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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