Motivational Quotes

Risk

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Allen, Woody

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Take calculated risks. This is quite different from being rash.

Patton, George S.

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

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

Danton, Georges

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

Burke, James E.

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

James, William

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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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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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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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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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Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Sculley, John

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

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

Jong, Erica

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.

Getty, J. Paul

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

West, Meredith

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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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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

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

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

Aesop

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

Proverb, American

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

Metastasio, Pietro

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?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

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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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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

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

Gardner, John W.