Motivational Quotes

Risk

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

- Erica Jong

Best Quotes about Risk

1.

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

Gretzky, Wayne

2.

As the band got more successful, it was increasingly difficult to get people to take a risk with something that might jeopardize their livelihood. [On Genesis]

Gabriel, Peter

3.

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

Ovid

4.

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

Erica Jong

5.

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

Allen, Woody

6.

Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

7.

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

Soul, Julia

8.

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

9.

There's no reward in life without risk.

Farber, Barry J.

10.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

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

Ali, Muhammad

12.

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

Toffler, Alvin

13.

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

Aesop

14.

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

15.

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

Lippmann, Walter

16.

?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Paulus, Trina

17.

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

Rohn, Jim

18.

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

19.

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

21.

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

Pilpay

22.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Lillian Carter

23.

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

24.

In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.

Danton, Georges

25.

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

West, Meredith

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

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

28.

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

Sculley, John

29.

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

Salazar, Alberto

30.

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

Horace

31.

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

32.

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

Gardner, John W.

33.

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

James, William

34.

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

Woodberry, George E.

35.

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

36.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

37.

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

Proverb, American

38.

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

39.

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

Shaw, P.K.

40.

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

Jong, Erica

41.

Perseverance and audacity generally win!

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

42.

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

43.

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

Jong, Erica

44.

To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

45.

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

46.

What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all.

Lindbergh, Charles A.

47.

A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

48.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.

Ash, Roy

49.

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

Stine, Richard

50.

He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.