Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Woodberry, George E.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

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

Rohn, Jim

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Erica Jong

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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

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

Krone, Julie

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Stine, Richard

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Proverb, American

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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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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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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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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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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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Virgil

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

Julia Sorel

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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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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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Pilpay

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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