Motivational Quotes

Risk

Educated risks are the key to success.

- Olsten, William

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

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

Burke, James E.

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

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

Brown, Les

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.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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

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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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

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

Ovid

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Jong, Erica

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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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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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sarton, May

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

Platen

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Soul, Julia

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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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

Pilpay

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Horace

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Krone, Julie

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Lippmann, Walter

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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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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.