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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Salazar, Alberto

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Sher, Barbara

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

Allen, Woody

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Kazan, Elia

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

10.

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

11.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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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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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.

14.

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

Pilpay

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

Jong, Erica

16.

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

Burke, James E.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

19.

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

West, Meredith

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

Brown, Les

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

Woodberry, George E.

23.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

24.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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

Hines, Duncan

26.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

28.

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

30.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Danton, Georges

34.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Ovid

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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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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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

40.

?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

41.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

42.

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

Jong, Erica

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

Aesop

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