Motivational Quotes

Risk

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Risk

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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

Stine, Richard

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

Julia Sorel

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

Aesop

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

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

Allen, Woody

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

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

10.

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

Proverb, American

11.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Shaw, P.K.

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Patton, George S.

19.

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

21.

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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To save all we must risk all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Horace

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Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

Woodberry, George E.

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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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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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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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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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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Willis, Nathaniel P.

39.

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

Joaquin Setanti

40.

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 you don't risk anything you risk even more.

Erica Jong

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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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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

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

Pilpay

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Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

Waitley, Denis

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