Motivational Quotes

Risk

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Jong, Erica

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

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Ash, Roy

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.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

Sculley, John

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Jong, Erica

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

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

Pilpay

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The ?sure thing? boat never gets far from shore.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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