Motivational Quotes

Risk

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Churchill, Winston

2.

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

3.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

4.

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

Eliot, T. S.

5.

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

6.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

7.

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

Virgil

8.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

9.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

10.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

15.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

16.

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

Hines, Duncan

17.

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.

18.

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

19.

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.

20.

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

21.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

22.

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

23.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

24.

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

Stine, Richard

25.

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

Ash, Roy

26.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

27.

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

Platen

28.

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

29.

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

Salazar, Alberto

30.

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

31.

?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

32.

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

Aesop

33.

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

Allen, Woody

34.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

35.

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

Kroc, Ray

36.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

37.

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

Julia Sorel

38.

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

Horace

39.

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

Woodberry, George E.

40.

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

Havlicek, John

41.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Jong, Erica

46.

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

47.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, American

50.

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