Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Gretzky, Wayne

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Virgil

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

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

Horace

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Getty, J. Paul

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

West, Meredith

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

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

Sarton, May

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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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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Platen

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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 dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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

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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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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