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

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Joaquin Setanti

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

Brown, Les

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Havlicek, John

10.

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

Sarton, May

11.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

12.

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

Virgil

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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Pilpay

18.

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

19.

?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

20.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

21.

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

Soul, Julia

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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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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

25.

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

Patton, George S.

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Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.

Simon, Neil

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

Platen

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Hines, Duncan

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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Eliot, T. S.

39.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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

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

Allen, Woody

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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Others attempt to live cautiously in the safety of established patterns. They do not feel fulfilled, yet they have found a formula not of success (whatever that is), but of avoiding failure. This is the living death -- when security becomes the overwhelming consideration.

Read, Randy

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

Kroc, Ray