Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Maltz, Maxwell

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Brown, Les

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.

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

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Platen

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

Sarton, May

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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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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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If a mans gonna eat fried chicken, he's gotta get greasy.

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

Aesop

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

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Julia Sorel

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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Pilpay

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

Woodberry, George E.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Jong, Erica

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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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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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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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Krone, Julie

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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

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What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.