Motivational Quotes

Risk

There's no reward in life without risk.

- Farber, Barry J.

Best Quotes about Risk

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.

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

Krone, Julie

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

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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.

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

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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

Moss, Stirling

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

Patton, George S.

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

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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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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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You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention, and sometime, maybe somebody, will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

Roth, David Lee

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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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He who stays in the valley will never see over the hill.

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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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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Willis, Nathaniel P.

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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

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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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Never tell me the odds.

Movie, Star Wars - Han Solo

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

Platen

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

Erica Jong

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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

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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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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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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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

Jong, Erica

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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.

Swift, Jonathan

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Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.

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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

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To save oneself, one must take risks and struggle.

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

Danton, Georges

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

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

Julia Sorel

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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

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A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out

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Daring is not safe against daring men.

Ovid

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Educated risks are the key to success.

Olsten, William

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Hufstedler, Shirley

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No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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

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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