Motivational Quotes

Risk

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

- Alda, Alan

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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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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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Julia Sorel

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I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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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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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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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Erica Jong

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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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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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.

Ovid

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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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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Gardner, John W.