Motivational Quotes

Risk

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Virgil

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Danton, Georges

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

Platen

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

Burke, James E.

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

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

Sarton, May

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

West, Meredith

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

Ovid

10.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

11.

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

Proverb, American

12.

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

Hines, Duncan

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If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.

Soul, Julia

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Rohn, Jim

19.

To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

24.

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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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

26.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Eliot, T. S.

29.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Erica Jong

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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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Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Bradbury, Ray

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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Aesop

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

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

Toffler, Alvin