Motivational Quotes

Risk

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Woodberry, George E.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Sculley, John

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

10.

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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Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

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You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we never even enter the game. Lucky people are aware of the possibility of losing, and indeed they may lose often. But since the chances they take are small, the losses tend to be small. By being willing to accept small losses, they put themselves in position to make large gains.

Gunther, Max

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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Pilpay

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

West, Meredith

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

Bradbury, Ray

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It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Daring is not safe against daring men.

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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

35.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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

Ali, Muhammad

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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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

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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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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

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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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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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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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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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The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace