Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Risk

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

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

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

Sculley, John

It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Aesop

11.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Platen

13.

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.

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

17.

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

Jong, Erica

18.

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

19.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

21.

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

Repplier, Agnes

22.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Virgil

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

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

26.

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

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

Salazar, Alberto

28.

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

Lillian Carter

29.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Friedman, Milton

31.

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

Havlicek, John

32.

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

Allen, Woody

33.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

34.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

35.

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

Kroc, Ray

37.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

38.

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

40.

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

Julia Sorel

41.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

42.

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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

44.

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

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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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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