Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- 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

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

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

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Alda, Alan

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

Proverb, American

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

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.

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

Erica Jong

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Stine, Richard

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

Burke, James E.

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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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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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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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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Aesop

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Sculley, John

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

Kroc, Ray

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Jong, Erica

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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 is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Ali, Muhammad

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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