Motivational Quotes

Risk

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Best Quotes about Risk

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Burke, James E.

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

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

West, Meredith

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Hines, Duncan

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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were--to the very last minute--a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Allen, Woody

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Patton, George S.

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Jong, Erica

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Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.

Steffens, Lincoln

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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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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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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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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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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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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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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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You can't steal second base with your foot on first.