Motivational Quotes

Risk

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

- Woodberry, George E.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

West, Meredith

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Gardner, John W.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Metastasio, Pietro

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Platen

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

Ovid

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

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Kroc, Ray

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Churchill, Winston

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Pilpay

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

Horace

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It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

Aesop

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

Sarton, May

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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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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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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! 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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Krone, Julie

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