Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

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Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

2.

Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

3.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

4.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

5.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

6.

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

7.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

8.

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

Hines, Duncan

9.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

10.

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

Lippmann, Walter

11.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb.That's where the fruit is.

12.

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

Woodberry, George E.

13.

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

Shaw, P.K.

14.

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

15.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

16.

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

Patton, George S.

17.

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

18.

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

Jong, Erica

19.

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

Platen

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

23.

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.

24.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

25.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

26.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

27.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

28.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

29.

People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

Sculley, John

30.

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

Virgil

31.

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

Joaquin Setanti

32.

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

33.

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

Eliot, T. S.

34.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

35.

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

36.

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

Koestler, Arthur

37.

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

38.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

39.

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