Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Hines, Duncan

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Virgil

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

Horace

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

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jong, Erica

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

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

Friedman, Milton

10.

?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

11.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

16.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

17.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

18.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

19.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

20.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

21.

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

22.

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

Hines, Duncan

23.

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

Kroc, Ray

24.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

25.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

Allen, Woody

27.

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

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Gerstner, Lou

29.

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

Erica Jong

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Woodberry, George E.

37.

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

38.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

39.

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

Eliot, T. S.

40.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

41.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

42.

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

43.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

44.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

45.

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

Rohn, Jim

46.

If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

47.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

48.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

49.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques