Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Hines, Duncan

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

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

West, Meredith

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Repplier, Agnes

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Proverb, American

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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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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

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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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

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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

Kroc, Ray

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Stine, Richard

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