Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about 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

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

Krone, Julie

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Friedman, Milton

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

10.

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

11.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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.

16.

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

Erica Jong

17.

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

Repplier, Agnes

18.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

19.

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

Soul, Julia

20.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

23.

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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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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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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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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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

28.

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

29.

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

Jong, Erica

30.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

31.

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

Stine, Richard

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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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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.

Brown, Les

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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

Where there is much to risk, there is much to consider.

Platen

41.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

42.

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

James, William

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

Eliot, T. S.

44.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

46.

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Horace