Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Woodberry, George E.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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

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

Danton, Georges

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Julia Sorel

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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

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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

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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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Aesop

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As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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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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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Sarton, May

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

Havlicek, John

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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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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Erica Jong

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

West, Meredith

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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

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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.