Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Toffler, Alvin

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

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

Horace

10.

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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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

Nolte, Nick

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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

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The irony is this: If you don't go in, you can't find out.

Stine, Richard

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Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Proverb, Persian

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Aesop

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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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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Pilpay

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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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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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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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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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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Julia Sorel

34.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Proust, Marcel

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

Proverb, American

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

Friedman, Milton

40.

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

41.

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

West, Meredith

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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Platen

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

Brown, Les

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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Noble, Alex

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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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Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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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