Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Aesop

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

2.

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

James, William

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Frost, Robert

6.

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

7.

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

Joaquin Setanti

8.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

9.

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

10.

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

11.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

12.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

13.

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

14.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

16.

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.

17.

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

Pilpay

18.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

19.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

20.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

21.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

22.

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

Krone, Julie

23.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

24.

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

25.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

26.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

27.

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

28.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

29.

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

Nolte, Nick

30.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

34.

Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

35.

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

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Eliot, T. S.

38.

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.

39.

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

Toffler, Alvin

40.

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

Proverb, American

41.

?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

42.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

43.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

44.

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

45.

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

Hines, Duncan

46.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Soul, Julia

50.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston