Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Horace

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Sarton, May

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Havlicek, John

10.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

16.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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

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

Platen

19.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

24.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

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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

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

Pilpay

29.

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.

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Jong, Erica

33.

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

Stine, Richard

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.

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

Krone, Julie

40.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

41.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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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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

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

48.

?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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.