Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Woodberry, George E.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Repplier, Agnes

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.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Proverb, American

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Sculley, John

14.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Virgil

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

Pilpay

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

Sarton, May

25.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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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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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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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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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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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Jong, Erica

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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

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

Lippmann, Walter

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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