Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Frost, Robert

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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

Proust, Marcel

To achieve anything in this game, you must be prepared to dabbled on the boundary of disaster.

Moss, Stirling

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

Virgil

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

Ali, Muhammad

10.

Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

11.

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

Kierkegaard, S°ren

12.

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

13.

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

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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.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

16.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

18.

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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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

22.

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

25.

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

Friedman, Milton

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

Repplier, Agnes

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

Sculley, John

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If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.

Allen, Woody

31.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

32.

With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.

Krone, Julie

33.

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

34.

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

Erica Jong

35.

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

Julia Sorel

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Platen

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

Soul, Julia

40.

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

Joaquin Setanti

41.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

42.

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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Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. The buck not only stops at their desks, it starts there too.

Kiam, Victor

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Pilpay

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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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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 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