Motivational Quotes

Risk

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Aesop

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down

Bradbury, Ray

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

Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.

Collier, Robert

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

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.

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

Joaquin Setanti

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

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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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

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

Wilcox, Frederick

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

Pilpay

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All serious daring starts from within.

Baez, Joan

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To win you have to risk loss.

Killy, Jean Claude

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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

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Friedman, Milton

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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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The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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

Ali, Muhammad

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Erica Jong

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Lillian Carter

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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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The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

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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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I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.

Hines, Duncan

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

Krone, Julie

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.

Maxim, Cadet

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During the first period of a man's life, the danger is not to take the risk.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Soul, Julia

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

Johnson, Jimmy

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

Jong, Erica

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

Gretzky, Wayne

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

Nolte, Nick

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Brown, Les

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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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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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Gerstner, Lou

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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