Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Woodberry, George E.

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

2.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

3.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

4.

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

5.

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

Rohn, Jim

6.

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

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Pilpay

11.

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

Woodberry, George E.

12.

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

Getty, J. Paul

13.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

14.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

16.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

17.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

18.

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

19.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

20.

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

21.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

22.

I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

23.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

24.

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.

25.

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

Moss, Stirling

26.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

27.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

28.

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

29.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

30.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

34.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

35.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Jong, Erica

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

42.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

43.

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

44.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

45.

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

46.

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

James, William

47.

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