Motivational Quotes

Risk

What you risk reveals what you value.

- Jeanette Winterson

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

2.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

3.

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

Salazar, Alberto

4.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

5.

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.

6.

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

Eliot, T. S.

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

?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

11.

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

Sculley, John

12.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

13.

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

Koestler, Arthur

14.

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

West, Meredith

15.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

19.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

20.

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

21.

If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

22.

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

Krone, Julie

23.

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

Frost, Robert

24.

The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

25.

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

Jong, Erica

26.

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

Woodberry, George E.

27.

He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

28.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

29.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

30.

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

Jong, Erica

31.

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

Julia Sorel

32.

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

33.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

34.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

35.

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

Proverb, American

36.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

37.

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.

38.

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

Hines, Duncan

39.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

45.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

46.

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

Joaquin Setanti

47.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.