Motivational Quotes

Risk

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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Best Quotes about Risk

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

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Keller, Helen

10.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

Salazar, Alberto

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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

12.

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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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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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

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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.

17.

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

Sarton, May

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

25.

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

James, William

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

Patton, George S.

28.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

29.

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

Krone, Julie

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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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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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

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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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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Ovid

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

West, Meredith

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

Jong, Erica

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.