Motivational Quotes

Risk

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

- Frost, Robert

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Allen, Woody

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

West, Meredith

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

Rohn, Jim

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Woodberry, George E.

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Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

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

Jong, Erica

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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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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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

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?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

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Proverb, American

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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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

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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.

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan