Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

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

Nolte, Nick

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Danton, Georges

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

Pilpay

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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 don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

40.

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

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

Platen

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

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Educated risks are the key to success.