Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Erica Jong

Best Quotes about Risk

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Frost, Robert

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

West, Meredith

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

Gardner, John W.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

10.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

11.

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

Salazar, Alberto

12.

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

Woodberry, George E.

13.

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

Moss, Stirling

14.

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

Patton, George S.

15.

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

16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

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

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

20.

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

21.

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

Proust, Marcel

22.

Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

23.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

24.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

25.

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

Nolte, Nick

26.

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

27.

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

Sarton, May

28.

Risk! Risk Anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those other voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Mansfield, Katherine

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

32.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

33.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

34.

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

35.

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

Friedman, Milton

36.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

37.

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

Aesop

38.

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

Pilpay

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Stine, Richard

42.

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.

43.

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

Krone, Julie

44.

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

Virgil

45.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

46.

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

Joaquin Setanti

47.

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

Sculley, John

48.

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

Julia Sorel

49.

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

50.

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