Motivational Quotes

Risk

All serious daring starts from within.

- Baez, Joan

Best Quotes about Risk

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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.

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

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

10.

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

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

Jong, Erica

12.

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.

13.

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

Nolte, Nick

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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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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Kroc, Ray

18.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

19.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Ovid

21.

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

Woodberry, George E.

22.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

West, Meredith

28.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

29.

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.

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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

31.

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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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

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

34.

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

Proverb, American

35.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

36.

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

Pilpay

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Conner, Mike

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

40.

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

Horace

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Krone, Julie

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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

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

Sculley, John

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

Platen

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

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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