Motivational Quotes

Risk

Life is a risk.

- Diane Von Furstenberg

Best Quotes about Risk

Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Julia Sorel

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

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

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

Danton, Georges

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

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

Soul, Julia

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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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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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

Jong, Erica

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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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First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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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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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Kroc, Ray

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

Aesop

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

Sculley, John

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

Salazar, Alberto

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

Maltz, Maxwell

31.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

Horowitz, Vladimir

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

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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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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 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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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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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 innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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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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What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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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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We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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.