Motivational Quotes

Risk

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Julia Sorel

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

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

Horace

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

Woodberry, George E.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Frost, Robert

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

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

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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

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

Soul, Julia

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Erica Jong

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Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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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

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Most successful people are people who take risks--calculated risks--but nevertheless, risks.

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

Ovid

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

Kroc, Ray

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He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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

Sculley, John

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

West, Meredith

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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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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Proverb, American

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

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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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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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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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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

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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.

John F. Kennedy

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke