Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

West, Meredith

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

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Havlicek, John

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Frost, Robert

11.

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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Erica Jong

14.

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

Jong, Erica

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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.

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

20.

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

Allen, Woody

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It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

25.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Proverb, American

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

Shaw, P.K.

29.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Pilpay

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

Ash, Roy

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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

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

Soul, Julia

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Jong, Erica

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

Stine, Richard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Moss, Stirling

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Nolte, Nick

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