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

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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! 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

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Gerstner, Lou

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Ovid

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Friedman, Milton

28.

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Platen

32.

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

Allen, Woody

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Krone, Julie

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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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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

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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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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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