Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Risk

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

Rohn, Jim

?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

First weigh the considerations, then take the risks.

Helmuth von Moltke

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

Soul, Julia

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.

We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.

Rohn, Jim

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.

10.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

Euripides

11.

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

12.

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

Aesop

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

Sculley, John

14.

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

Shaw, P.K.

15.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

Sarton, May

16.

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

Wilcox, Frederick

17.

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

Krone, Julie

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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

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

20.

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

Joaquin Setanti

21.

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

22.

It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats

23.

Good to sell knowledge for labor, honor for risk.

Proverb, Arabian

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

Danton, Georges

25.

The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

Woodberry, George E.

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Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

King, Billie Jean

27.

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

Kazan, Elia

28.

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

Friedman, Milton

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Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Frost, Robert

30.

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

31.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Eliot, T. S.

40.

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

Pilpay

41.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

42.

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

Johnson, Jimmy

43.

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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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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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

46.

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

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

Horace

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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

49.

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

50.

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

Hufstedler, Shirley