Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Erica Jong

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

2.

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

Friedman, Milton

3.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

4.

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

Virgil

5.

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

6.

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

Platen

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Patton, George S.

11.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

12.

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

Jong, Erica

13.

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

Moss, Stirling

14.

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

15.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

16.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Havlicek, John

17.

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Gretzky, Wayne

18.

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

Nolte, Nick

19.

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

20.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

21.

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

Salazar, Alberto

22.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Ash, Mary Kay

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

29.

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

Maltz, Maxwell

30.

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

31.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Johnson, Jimmy

32.

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

Stine, Richard

33.

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

Shaw, P.K.

34.

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.

35.

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

Erica Jong

36.

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

37.

What you risk reveals what you value.

Jeanette Winterson

38.

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

Sculley, John

39.

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

Eliot, T. S.

40.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

41.

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

42.

Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

Buffett, Warren

43.

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

Ali, Muhammad

44.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

Metastasio, Pietro

45.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

46.

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

47.

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

Pilpay

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Jong, Erica