Motivational Quotes

Risk

Life is a risk.

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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 play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

Hufstedler, Shirley

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

Getty, J. Paul

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Repplier, Agnes

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

Soul, Julia

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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.

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

Burke, James E.

10.

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

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Sculley, John

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

Salazar, Alberto

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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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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 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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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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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Virgil

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

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If you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, American

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

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

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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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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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.