Motivational Quotes

Risk

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

- Burke, James E.

Best Quotes about Risk

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out.

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

West, Meredith

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Sculley, John

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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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

Erica Jong

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Platen

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I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

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

Virgil

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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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

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Jong, Erica

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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

Frost, Robert

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

Sarton, May

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

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

Ovid

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.