Motivational Quotes

Risk

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Lippmann, Walter

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Havlicek, John

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

Feather, William

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Hines, Duncan

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

West, Meredith

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

Virgil

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

Proust, Marcel

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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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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.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Sculley, John

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

Krone, Julie

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Aesop

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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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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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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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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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