Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Risk

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

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

Proverb, American

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

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

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

Shaw, P.K.

10.

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Wilcox, Frederick

11.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

12.

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

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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.

14.

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

Hines, Duncan

15.

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

Getty, J. Paul

17.

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

18.

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

19.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

20.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

21.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Collier, Robert

23.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

24.

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

25.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

26.

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

Kroc, Ray

27.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

30.

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

Allen, Woody

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Buyers are graded not only on their successes, but also on their failures. Too many hits means the buyer isn't taking enough chances.

Wexner, Leslie

32.

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

Havlicek, John

33.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

34.

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

35.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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

Woodberry, George E.

38.

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

39.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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

41.

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

West, Meredith

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

43.

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

Erica Jong

44.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

45.

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

46.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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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

49.

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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.