Motivational Quotes

Risk

It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

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

Erica Jong

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Sarton, May

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

Soul, Julia

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

Proust, Marcel

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

James, William

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

11.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Krone, Julie

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Toffler, Alvin

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Pilpay

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

Jong, Erica

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Virgil

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

Sculley, John

41.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

42.

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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