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

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

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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.

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

Eliot, T. S.

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

Friedman, Milton

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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

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It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Jong, Erica

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

Platen

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

Krone, Julie

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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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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

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

West, Meredith

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

Soul, Julia

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

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To do an evil act is base. To do a good one without incurring danger, is common enough. But it is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risks everything in doing them.

Plutarch

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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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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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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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

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Ovid

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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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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Run for daylight.