Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Erica Jong

Best Quotes about Risk

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Keller, Helen

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Allen, Woody

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Toffler, Alvin

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Salazar, Alberto

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Newman, Henry Cardinal

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

West, Meredith

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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive

Kazan, Elia

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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.

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

Repplier, Agnes

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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

James, William

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There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

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Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

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

Friedman, Milton

30.

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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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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Run for daylight.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Proverb, American

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

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

Patton, George S.

42.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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

Joaquin Setanti

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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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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

49.

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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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